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Eleanor Holmes Norton is an American attorney and politician serving as the U.S. Representative for the District of Columbia since 1991. A member of the Democratic Party, she has been a strong advocate for D.C. statehood and local autonomy. Throughout her tenure, Norton has focused on issues such as civil rights, education, and public safety, often emphasizing the unique challenges faced by residents of the District of Columbia. She has been vocal against federal interference in local governance, arguing for the rights of D.C. residents to have representation and control over their own affairs.
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…
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.
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.
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…
The District of Columbia barred guns in light of carnage over the decades. Those laws had been found to be constitutional.
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Well, Professor Warren, this is just the kind of thing we had hoped you would be doing.
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…
So isn't it the case that the Affordable Care Act, by correcting this overpayment, in fact, saved Medicare funds for the first time that anyone has been able to do so in any large amount of funds?
But as we know, the trustees--I'm sorry. Yes, the trustees have to let us know when the general funds are being tapped to pay for Part D.
Could I ask you now, in the Affordable Care Act we closed the doughnut hole over time. Now, how do we pay for that?
More than 25 years ago, the Congress charged the Defense Department to identify and then to clean up and remediate properties which the department had owned or leased in order to test chemical munitions. Congress did so because these…
I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will report the amendment. The Clerk read as follows: At the end of the bill (before the short title), insert the following: Sec. __. The amount otherwise made available by this…
I think Federal Government involvement in terms of making sure that, even if the State agencies are doing it as an oversight, that there is some overlaying uniform set of criteria so that everyone lives up to the same standards I think is…
I was astonished that bus drivers... were being attacked apparently often enough so that a job action was threatened.
I regret that that has to be done, but you can't ask somebody to drive a bus if you are going to be assaulted, and you don't know who is going to get on your bus and do so.
Most of us did not know--I don't believe I knew until the crash--that there were no national rail standards.
Congress, in the wake of this historic crash that so alarmed the country, many of us introduced a bill...
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