In other words, you thought that the----
They have lied to the international community, lied to their own people.
No, they don't. I mean let's be plain. They have lied to the international community, lied to their own people.
I view that to read that you could not have put people on administrative leave and you could not have fired people until the final report.
Mr. Tangherlini has been the administrator of the District of Columbia, a very big and complicated city; done the same thing at Metro.
Just a moment, Ms. Johnson. Are you criticizing----
even members of the Oversight Committee know the difference between a joke and corruption.
Do you think this courthouse should be built at all now that you are free of the post that you held at GSA?
I would just like some clarification on the L.A. Courthouse. I mean, it goes back to my first days in the Congress.
The final IG report found that expenditures related to the conference were, and here I am quoting, 'excessive, and wasteful, and that in man...
If someone in Region 9 wanted to know whether or not what they were doing was within the rules under the present structure, would they turn ...
I am going to have questions for Mr. Tangherlini and Ms. Johnson about the structure of GSA, which is very troubling in this regard.
So the counsel himself didn't want his opinion in writing?
The judges have been a major factor in courthouse waste.
Could a courthouse be built in L.A. for $400 million today?
I have been trying to figure out how he became so powerful, if I may use that word.
The notion of Hats Off will have no meaning to the general public, has no meaning to me.
I am very, very concerned about the structure of the agency.
