The roll-out of the Affordable Care Act was an unmitigated disaster.

I wonder if a better approach is simply to make sure that the taxpayer is not an involuntary shareholder in the institution in the first place.

But would you agree that in Title II of Dodd-Frank there is an explicit mechanism by which the regulators are empowered at their discretion to tap into taxpayer funding and execute a bailout of sorts.

If anything like this happened in private industry, these people not only would be prosecuted--fired, but they would be prosecuted as well.

The government needs to be downsized straight across the board by 50 percent, and then maybe we'll get control on people that are cheating the taxpayer.

this is theft from the hardworking taxpayer, and quite honestly, I'm getting tired of hearing about this.

Today, I hope to hear how GSA and its tenant agencies are going to replace 100 million square feet of expiring space.

Thank you, Madam Chair, and I especially appreciate your efforts to have this hearing, which is a topic that we don't discuss enough, and it's at a time when families are still stressed, even though we're in a recovery, and a lot of…

We have already saved $1 billion by simply reducing the size of prospectus level lease replacements by up to 20 percent.

We can save $3 billion over the next 10 years. That is a goal worth achieving.

At the meeting, which I would describe as a pep rally, Scott Pluta twice described this committee's oversight efforts as 'political theater.'

Thank you, Ms. Norton, who has really been a champion for utilizing these Government spaces, saving money by doing things smarter, utilizing leases.

Thank you very much for your testimony.

The United States is a country made up of immigrants, and it is part of what makes us so strong and vibrant.

But at the end of the day--you know, we hear this, 'Well, let's not make the perfect the enemy of the good.' But at the end of the day, North Korea has got nuclear weapons and we can't do a darn thing about it.

I think there is merit to the EB-5, in terms of its investment, if it is in an orderly process.

The President as they say, befitted himself well, as he always does, in your appointment.

if we pass comprehensive immigration reform, you sort of put in order all that you are dealing with now.