Considering that we are in deficit, that is 141 billion that we had to borrow to send out improperly.

In my time on the Oversight Committee, that has been one of the most frustrating things that we have had to deal with, is the failure of various agencies to respond appropriately to a subpoena.

Well, you are supposed to comply with all the laws and regulations, including the Office of Special Counsel's Reauthorization Act, and thus far, as far as I can tell you, you have not produced the documents requested by OSC until the…

Are you making sure that in this reorganization plan that none of these reassignments are punitive?

But what I am really wanting to know is are you taking proactive steps to make sure that people who have been mistreated are not mistreated in this reorganization plan?

I thank the gentleman.

What I find interesting about a lot of this in listening to the questions from my colleagues on the other side of the aisle bringing up these various problems from emissions is that, since 1980, our economy's expanded by probably close to…

I think it is incumbent on the Federal government to make it very clear the expectations on performance and cost.

Well, it is an area that I am very focused on right now.

you generally get what you expect to find and hold people accountable for, and that would apply to grantmaking.

What I have found is we do not do that a lot, and, consequently, we have created a huge problem on the spending side.

every dollar that we spend right now on this stuff that goes out improperly or is mismanaged is a dollar we have to borrow.

Here is the thing. We have the Federal acquisition regulations for procuring goods and services.

GAO is one of my favorite agencies in the Federal government.

My colleagues, Dr. Virginia Foxx from North Carolina and Congressman Jimmy Gomez from California, agreed with these recommendations.

we should be equally outraged when anyone makes an attempt to deny the American public their hard-fought-for and well-defended right to elect for themselves the representatives that they want.

An informed citizenry is the hallmark of American representative democracy.

I generally am not for extending Federal power. But I think this when it comes to constitutional issues and I really think this is an area where the Federal Government does have a legitimate need to intervene.

I've never gotten a complaint about a short hearing.

But even with a law that we have here or the bill that we have here, that's not an issue. Would you agree with that?

I think one of the geniuses of this bill is that it really does articulate very well those limited exceptions and articulates how limited they are and need to be.

It's absolutely critical that people have confidence that the vote count is accurate, it reflects the will of the people.

I thank the gentlemen from North Carolina, Mr. Meadows and Mr. Walker, for their support of this amendment. And I would just like to point out, as Mr. Meadows was pointing out, this is really about defending rights. This amendment…

How much time do I have remaining? The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman from Alabama has 3 minutes remaining.

My amendment would prohibit funds from being used to carry out the District of Columbia's Health Insurance Requirement Amendment Act of 2018. This is essentially the District's version of ObamaCare's individual mandate with a few important…