Eleanor Holmes Norton

The elephant is that we are sitting here as if this is going to happen.

I don't ever want to throw out the baby with the bath water.

A meaner Medicaid is not a sufficient solution.

I will work with you and other Members of this body to exercise, to carve out and get rid of all those individuals and those opportunities.

I thank the ranking member for yielding. I thank the chairman for coming forward with this bill. Enough of the outrage on both sides--if I may remind us all that that's precisely what the American people told us during recess they didn't…

Mr. Contreras is another of these remarkable American success stories of first-generation Americans who become Federal judges.

I believe his confirmation will be assured should this Committee determine to approve him.

First, Senator Durbin, I want to thank you once again for the invaluable assistance you have been to the District of Columbia over the years.

I am pleased that his family is here: his mother, Amparo Contreras; his wife, Karen McSweeney; his two children, Brian Contreras and Claire Contreras.

My amendment would designate $300,000 from the National Recreation and Preservation Account for a National Park Service study of whether applying the same rules and regulations to all parks maximizes the highest and best use of individual…

I appreciate the remarks of the chairman and the ranking member. In light of those remarks and their generosity, I do withdraw my amendment and will work with them to try to implement it in other ways. The Acting CHAIR. Without objection…

I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will report the amendment. The Clerk read as follows: Page 14, line 19, after the dollar amount, insert ``(decreased by $300,000)(increased by $300,000)''. The Acting CHAIR. The…

You are not at liberty to tell the people of the District of Columbia who have to live with the carnage how to approach it.

To sit in a hearing and hear people beat up on the ATF is very, very interesting to me.

If I had a dollar for every mistake this Congress has made when it came to guns, I would be a very rich woman.

What could you do to me?

The District of Columbia barred guns in light of carnage over the decades. Those laws had been found to be constitutional.

I stand by the notion that the reason that the ATF agents don't have the laws they need is because the Republicans have over and over again introduced laws that would, in fact, keep them from getting those laws and have stood in the way of…

I thank the gentleman from Illinois for yielding. Madam Speaker, the debt limit isn't the only deadline that is upon us. Here we are, facing Friday--D-day for the Nation's aviation system. This is the third Congress where our committee has…

What has been most encouraging to us is that we now know we are not in this fight alone. Imagine having to fight against the almighty Congress when you are one jurisdiction, obviously without the means to let the entire country understand…

Thank you, Mr. Speaker. On any given day, if the American people listen to the speakers on the floor of the House of Representatives, they will come to the conclusion that many Members sure do hate government. At the very least, they…

The Financial Services appropriation soon due on the floor will be contentious; but one section should be a piece of cake because it only requires Members to vote on the local budget of a city, the District of Columbia, already voted on…

Well, Professor Warren, this is just the kind of thing we had hoped you would be doing.

I come to the floor to alert Members who interfere with the local funds of a local jurisdiction, not your own, in this case the District of Columbia, that this year, it will be highlighted in your own district. The debt limit discussions…

Before I begin my remarks, I too want to acknowledge my good friend, Lynn Woolsey, for 20 really illustrious years in the Congress. I cannot imagine why she would want to end her illustrious career here so early. We will miss her. I should…