Eleanor Holmes Norton

I would ask you, Mr. Guerin, to look at the design prototyping that the Custom and Border Patrol uses and within 30 days submit to this Committee whether or not you think any of it is applicable to GSA.

I would hope there would never ever be another leased border station if we could possibly help it.

Nobody from the Federal Government is on the ground for Eleanor Holmes Norton's District's infrastructure funds.

I hate to hold them up because GSA is in fact who is holding them up.

We certainly will need to see the elements I have just described before approving any more courthouses.

We have been moribund on courthouses for some time and this Committee does not intend to move with courthouses.

I commend you, Mr. Frazier, you who are supposed to be in the security business...

I believe it is your obligation to consider that, even if there is not anything you can do about it at the moment.

I will tell you what I am going to do if I own one of these buildings in this bad economy: I am going to give you an offer you can't refuse, Mr. Frazier.

If, however, you look at what the administration has done, it is a very daring thing to do.

Let me compliment the administration for doing what no administration has ever even tried to do before, and that is to calculate jobs per funding by the United States Government.

It seems to me, if one were trying to help this administration get out of the quagmire into which it fell by inheritance, one of the things would be to ask: Should we continue to pay for buildings multiple times?

Oh, I don't blame them. You keep paying for the buildings over and over again.

Thank you both for this very useful testimony.

Very good, Mr. Guerin.

Well in advance of the end of 2010.

We would like within 30 days to get a copy of your small business plan and of the results thus far.

I don't think this administration would want to put itself in the same bag as prior administrations...

Much of that workforce will be people of color and women. These are people who faced intentional discrimination for decades.

The important thing about the administration's work is not geared only to lifting the economy up, it is very forward looking.

Apprenticeship, this has been a big concern of this Committee and we do have apprenticeship...

This division of funds between the two agencies was done at what level; were you both asked for your input?

I am not asking to you look at every kind of building you do but for courthouses--in the future, somewhere down the pike--some kind of design prototyping could be perfected.

We have wasted tons of money of taxpayer dollars.

Now I am interested in these innovative technologies...