Of course, we are going through this now with our embassies, and paying a heavy price around the world because we listened to some people who wanted to be in a particular location, and now we have serious security problems that we are…

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.

Do you have a facility for tomorrow?

It is hard to understand how that is going to be met on a 6.6-acre site with 2.6 million square feet.

We are puzzled. We have gone through 12 years where the FBI, GSA, intelligence community have all said that the FBI needs a facility to not only meet its current needs, but to meet its needs in the future.

The J. Edgar Hoover Building does not meet interagency security committee standards for an intelligence committee graded building.

I suggest that the information you are giving us right now may be, likewise, a mistake.

You recognize that you can't proceed without Congress's authorization through our committees, correct?

You have to harden it the best that you can, which is going to take some space.

No input at all from the White House?

We want the FBI to consolidate in its most efficient ways, and we understand that some of the functions may be better performed in other locations.

What you are saying defies logic. What you are saying is that the FBI can save money if it starts taking its employees out of the Hoover Building and putting them into temporary short term leases. Doesn't make sense.

I hope, before you send us a prospectus for our consideration, that we have all of the detailed information available to us.

I just want to underscore the point that Senator Van Hollen made in regards to the congressional appropriations on the original project.

I would submit to you that you don't have the capacity to expand onsite.