"So in construction, Mr. Peck, if we gave credit for the subs hiring or, excuse me, engaging in small business contracting, wouldn't that be an incentive for them in letting their own subcontracting hold those subcontractors accountable, and since they are also going to get some credit?"
"Some developer somewhere has been able to get the government to plop down money to rent his building for 15 years and he did not have to compete anywhere else in the region."
"I can't hold you responsible. I do want your commitment that on your watch you will never simply supercede language from this Committee without informing this Committee."
"It is totally unacceptable and where we find it, we have to stop it and call the agency to account."
"This administration understands return to the government."
"This isn't testimony. Testimony has to do with agency policy. This is a policy of the Congress of the United States."
"I have drawn this to the attention of the administration in my own report to them or my own transition memo to them, that they are caged in a budgeting notion of real estate."
"That is now a requirement. This started as a requirement in this region."
"I am certainly willing to talk to the appropriators as we go through this prospect."
"This administration, given the circumstances that have forced it into raising sky high deficit, needs to be leveraging every authority it can to drive down the deficit."
"Are you prepared to deal with preapprenticeship programs as well as with apprentices, already qualified apprentices?"