I just want to underscore the point that Senator Van Hollen made in regards to the congressional appropriations on the o...
No input at all from the White House?
I understand it is an FBI decision. I asked who was involved in making that decision. Solely FBI?
Of course, we are going through this now with our embassies, and paying a heavy price around the world because we listen...
But this building will be at capacity.
Did you figure that into your projections, the realities of politics?
And what I am suggesting to you, make it two times umpteen years, because that is how this process has unfolded.
I am having a hard time accepting what you are saying here, so I want to be perfectly blunt about that.
It is hard to understand how that is going to be met on a 6.6-acre site with 2.6 million square feet.
I would submit to you that you don't have the capacity to expand onsite.
Do you have a facility for tomorrow?
You have to harden it the best that you can, which is going to take some space.
You recognize that you can't proceed without Congress's authorization through our committees, correct?
The J. Edgar Hoover Building does not meet interagency security committee standards for an intelligence committee graded...
We are puzzled. We have gone through 12 years where the FBI, GSA, intelligence community have all said that the FBI need...
We want the FBI to consolidate in its most efficient ways, and we understand that some of the functions may be better pe...
We have dozens of States that have embarked upon experiments with medical marijuana.
Everybody loves federalism in principle. Everybody loves federalism in theory, in the abstract.
