"So everybody agrees this is the most unique place in the world."
"I would ask FEMA, through your disability coordinator established by statute after Hurricane Katrina, to consider real-time exercises throughout the United States, of course, but particularly in this ..."
"But I ask this question because, to the extent that the Federal Government is supposed to be paying for a central facility..."
"Most of the money to do decontamination... you do not have the funds presently to decontaminate individuals, officials, residents, and the like?"
"Isn't that ridiculous? I mean for nonprofits only."
"I have no complaint about what you have done, given the resources available to you."
"I regard it as an unplanned event."
"I want you to know this is one Member--I think I have my whole region with me--going to try to get those additional resources for what was a Herculean job Metro did."
"Mr. DeAtley, would you, within 10 days, get to this Committee a record of the funds from Washington Hospital Center, non-Federal sources, District of Columbia, Washington Hospital Center and other non..."
"I do want to thank you for that testimony, because it is another one of the absurdities of how easy it is for the bureaucrats to simply answer, when you ask for funding, 'Sorry, we only fund for-profi..."
"Nobody knew what was happening in the tunnel, and nobody is able to tell me who should have known or what we should do about it."