Thank you for all your contributions, for your presence today.

How can we ensure that the good work in property reform, spearheaded both by the last administration and by this administration, continues on into the next administration, the next year and a half, and beyond?

Integrity, if you have it, nothing else matters.

Trust in relationships is so important.

I just want to thank you for what you do.

Legislation that I have introduced here would make it possible for people in the District of Columbia to actually be represented with voting members in the Senate and the House.

I am helping to put a man on the moon.

I am troubled by the fact that the folks here pay taxes, they serve in the military, and they have many responsibilities of citizenship, but they do not get a vote in the House or Senate.

I promise you, when you come back before this Committee, you will hear about it again.

The Committee will come to order.

I am going to just go back and talk a little bit about--and we have already dealt with this a little bit, but I just want to revisit it again if I could.

Senator Lankford and I are big Golden Rule believers; treat other people the way we want to be treated.

Usually, it takes that long for us to clear our throats in the Senate.

When you get push-back, or we will say a lack of passion, for pursuing strategic sourcing, what are some of the excuses that you get, and how do you deal with that?

in America you have elections every 4 years. Somebody wins; somebody loses. And you just have a transition, and the next person becomes president.

It means a lot.

It was a smart move on his part.

I do not mind paying taxes. I just do not want you to waste my money.