Eleanor Holmes Norton actually said...

"There is some cost to the government that it simply has to assume in maintaining a core function."

"We really wanted to centralize the delivery of the contracting for brokerage services because we had a whole lot of different contracts going in a whole lot of different directions."

"Did they have to certify as they sign a lease that they have abided by--does somebody have to sign on a dotted line that the conflict of interest controls have been enforced in this----"

"For your own safety, you need to have someone certify that that breach--given the fact--you can only do so much monitoring."