Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton, D-D.C., assured a nervous General Services Administration official that a joke he made about her oversight of the GSA did not give any offense.
“Even members of the Oversight Committee can take a joke,” Norton told the GSA’s David Foley. “Far from belittling me, I think the joke complimented me for my oversight role,” she said.
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Foley apologized profusely during his opening statement for mentioning Norton while joking about lax oversight of the GSA at the expensive Las Vegas conference. “I sincerely apologize for my remarks at the awards ceremony,” Foley told the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee today. “I especially apologize to Congresswoman Norton . . . I did not mean to belittle you or your role in any way.
Foley was referring to the video of him in Las Vegas, joking with other employees that “Eleanor Holmes Norton, — our chairwoman on the Oversight Committee –called, she has a couple of questions about the proposed pay increases for executives you mentioned outside.”
