I thank the chairman of the Veterans' Affairs Committee for yielding and for bringing this bill. Especially I thank Mr. Self for his leadership in working for so long on this important bill. Mr. Speaker, it is not often that we will walk…

So, another question--and I am not a math whiz, but as I recall, there was an assessment that was done by, I believe, GSA--that found that 17 of 24 Federal buildings in the Washington, DC, area had occupancy rates of lower than 25 percent…

I appreciate the work that the GAO has done to help identify some of these concerns to the Congress.

The rough order of magnitude of savings that you noted seems like it would be more than worth it.

$6 billion over 10 if we--and again, ballpark, I am not going to hold you to it, but just a ballpark range.

I do think that we need to be thinking about a remedy there, because there needs to be a performance--if people aren't performing, they shouldn't be paid.

Thank you, Mr. Doomes.

I am sure, my initial reaction when you said you needed money to save space. I am thinking that that seems a little bit backwards.

I think he's going to be inspiring and uplifting, and he wants to talk about unifying the country. That's what the country needs right now.

I think -- when he says America first that comes from a deep, sincere place in his heart and he loves this country.

It is an objective truth that Donald Trump is probably the most persecuted and attacked political figure in history.

We need to work on bringing that down so that we can have thoughtful debate and we can have policy debates and discussions.

We need a unified message. We need to turn the temperature down and I think it is a time for moral clarity.

I've called last night for hearings. We are going to do this as quickly as possible, get the answers that the American people deserve.

We’ve got to turn the rhetoric down. We’ve got to turn the temperature down in this country. And we need leaders of all parties on both sides to call that out.

This is a dangerous time and we've been suggesting that all elected officials from the president on down really try to draw the country together.

I think the polls are good. Polling drives of what happens in politics, but people for a long time, they don't like his choice. Seventy-three percent of the country doesn't like this choice and Republican Party is hopeless band of mostly…

To my colleagues across the aisle, this is about the quality of the evidence. Surely everyone recognizes that the Oversight Committee is the body of authority of Congress that has responsibility to hold the executive branch accountable. In…