"Is that a correct statement, that the issue would be given higher priority, based on a risk assessment?"
"Do you have flexibility to either work with the Office of the Architect here to not issue that citation?"
"I am trying to understand exactly how much flexibility there is built into all of this."
"Well, I would hope that we would agree that spending $7 million is not the prudent thing to do if we are going to do a whole building renovation in 2 years."
"Why in the world would we spend the money to fix this now when 2 years from now, we may have a whole building renovation?"
"So there is the ability to work through these?"
"I do have to question whether applying a gold standard to the legislative branch is appropriate."
"I am in favor of the legislative branch serving as a model for the rest of the Government."
"What would happen if we were to set that standard within the legislative branch?"
"And in what areas would those be, these new ones that you are announcing?"
"Do you think you are going to have a clean report again this year?"