What is it that you say the brokers are bringing to the table that the in-house people are not?

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

We know the moment the lease is signed, therefore we have a way to plan our work.

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.

whoever is the appropriate person ought to take responsibility for certifying that the conflict of interest regulations--obviously, we want to look at them in connection with--or guidance in connection with the new contract as well, have…

I have asked whether--and we should have asked GSA whether or not they are using the same measures this year that they were using 2 years ago, for God's sake.

We want to see more of taking advantage of its role in the market.

Did GSA ever come to the government to ask for authority to retain that fee themselves?

That is very, very bad, very, very bad, and something we are going to have to look into.

Of course, we will have to see if that happened.

The government--and the President put in his budget--bought a building, the first time, I think, since I have been on this Subcommittee that the government plopped down some money, taking an advantage on an option to buy.

We are trying to get out of this somehow because we are among those who complain when monitoring isn't done.