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.

we are going to attempt to get gold on this.

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.

for us not to maximize this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity--we are never going back.

The Recovery Act's primary purpose is to stimulate economic recovery through investments that preserve and create jobs.

That is the kind of thing I am talking about, somebody who is kind of like them and has succeeded.

That is now a requirement. This started as a requirement in this region.

I am trying to figure out how much trouble we are in as we lease more and more space.

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.

We are not going to get another large stimulus package, but that is no excuse for letting the transportation bill lie fallow while jobs, not to mention highways, and transit, and improvements in great need, go by the way.

If this money does not reach a small business contract, then the funds over which we have oversight will have been a partial failure.

Could I ask you and Mr. O'Keefe to get within 30 days to this Subcommittee a copy of your respective small business plans?