Tom Tancredo: “The information that we have about this facility comes to us from the FDA. It is their own information. It is their own…”

“The information that we have about this facility comes to us from the FDA. It is their own information. It is their own documentation. It is the rationale for their budget request. It states that restricted funds will serve to consolidate three district's sites, the laboratory on People Boulevard, the current district office in Irvine, and the San Pedro resident post. If that has changed and it is a different configuration than this, I will be happy to entertain that consideration, but that is what they said this is for. They also said that this replacement facility was going to house 75 laboratory staff and 120 office personnel at an estimated construction cost of $40.4 million. Again, $40.4 million for the building and the gentlewoman and I both know that the building will never come in at that amount. When was the last time a Federal building project ever came in at budget? But our best hope is $40.4 million. Again add the $9.8 million to that that we have spent for land and design, and we have got a building that is now approaching $400 per square foot in cost. This is extraordinary.”