"We need to negotiate the best deal we can and lock in on not a year extension, but go long and at least out go there 5 to 7 years where we can take advantage of the market rates and we can stabilize."
"I represent a significant portion of Prince George's County and some of Montgomery County."
"I certainly understand the District of Columbia numbers. I am not quite sure I understand the great discrepancy from suburban Maryland to Northern Virginia."
"The Subcommittee will hold the agency very responsible, if you do not take advantage of this market to renegotiate these rents or to extend these rents or to move."
"There has been a longstanding complaint particularly in Prince George's County that Prince George's County has not enjoyed in this region a fair share of GSA lease opportunities."
"We are trying to orient the GSA to think in a down market what the advantages are."
"I am particularly interested in the way that you both value the lease and how you assess things like transportation."
"If this agency ever does to us what it did to Prince George's, because when they did it to Prince George's, they did it to us, we are going to hold you in contempt because it was a contemptible act."
"Your notion is about backlog. That, by the way, is exactly what I meant at the EOC, a 100,000-case backlog."
"Whereas if they were a bank, they could negotiate in keeping with the state of the market."
"I think the concern isn't just about this Metropolitan region, that it is replicated in other Metropolitan regions as well."