Last summer Congress passed the supplemental appropriations act containing $2.8 billion for Haiti's recovery effort.

In that regard, Ms. Chrisler, probably the act requires you to take certain actions for inspections. It doesn't specify how many or how often or that you have to do it.

Could you give us what their recommendations were, or what their conclusions were, with respect to, first, the Russell Senate Office Building stairs.

And if it needs to be modified, it wouldn't necessarily prohibit self-inspections with oversight.

Our approach is to find the plan and work our way into it, so that we don't get into a situation where, in order to meet the objective, somebody thinks we should close the CVC 2 days a week, or something like that.

It would be helpful to develop a scorecard because I suspect that as you went back and looked at other reports, some of the things that were suggested in the past were still not done and questions still not answered.

I would agree. And I'm looking at perhaps sponsoring that legislation, myself.

I think we can reconvene, here.

Approval of the trade agreements with Panama and Colombia have been delayed for more than 5 years.

the United States is, from a global perspective, in a competition for influence.

Mr. Speaker, I am here to talk today about red tape, specifically the 1099 form. It's a relatively short, seemingly harmless form. Yet when we require every business in this country to file a 1099 form for every business transaction over…

And I would say that it is enormously important that we come together on a bipartisan basis and find a way to lock in these reforms.

Reform first. Pay later.

Mr. Speaker, I rise to recognize a great South Florida organization: Women of Tomorrow. This month, Women of Tomorrow will hold its annual gala, celebrating 10 years of making a difference in the lives of young women. Women of Tomorrow was…

I think it has improved and we still have to keep the pressure on them to make them improve more.

I think that it is going to play a key role in the Middle East, where we can set up, as you mentioned, we can set up U.N. offices to do democracy building, rather than the U.S. going in.

So I think that in Haiti and in other places, where we would possibly have had troops, the U.N. is covering that for us.

Mr. Speaker, a 2-week extension to fund the government may prevent a shutdown, but it will not change the fact that a serious choice lies before this Congress. Will 2011 be a year in which we continue to grow our economy, a year that…