We have competing interests here between small rural hospitals and the need to protect the consumer.
I do not view the Secretary's certification as setting aside this process.
I guess my encouragement to you would be to look at recommendations that we could either do legislatively, or provide gr...
Because I would challenge you on that. That is--you are talking to someone who has actually done it.
I will let you revisit that.
Certainly reducing costs and increasing efficiency in our Federal real estate portfolio is a bipartisan issue.
if we can find a way to be efficient, and consolidate, and make sure that we lower our costs, I am all in.
Ultimately, our goals in building efficiency are effectiveness and reducing costs.
These are not controversial issues--these are effective solutions that we know will reduce costs.
I guess what I am looking for is if you can get to this committee how do we make sure that we have a diversity of opinio...
I am looking for a diversity of opinions and the ability to make sure we are efficient and effective.
GSA has a unique role in this regard.
And everything except what Mr. Johnson said about the Green New Deal, by the way, I agreed with.
if we are serious about efficiency, then we should look at doing more in the public-private partnership side of things
you are going to find a very willing bipartisan support, even if it goes against perhaps some of the long-held principle...
I guess what I am saying is there is a lack of flexibility when it comes to those standards.
Solutions should reduce costs for the taxpayer.
We are requesting that the balance of approximately 48.8 million be rolled into the next direct payment program.
