Angie Craig: “I commend her to my colleagues as an Interior Secretary who will cooperate with Congress and collaborate with States and…”

“I commend her to my colleagues as an Interior Secretary who will cooperate with Congress and collaborate with States and local governments and communities of interest affected by her Department's decisions. I also commend her to my colleagues as a person who demonstrated in her two days of testimony before the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources that she possesses the balanced views and judgment and personality required to be a Secretary of the Interior. That was perhaps somewhat of a surprise, I think, to some of our committee members who had heard about Ms. Norton only through the advertisements of a $2 million media campaign waged against her nomination by national environmental groups. I don't believe it has been since Jackie Gleason--and we remember Jackie Gleason, fist doubled up, face flushed--railing against his Honeymooner's neighbor by the name of Norton. We kept hearing 'Norton, Norton.' I don't think we have heard that name Norton, spoken with so much venom since the days of Jackie Gleason.”