Eleanor Holmes Norton

That is good news. We understand that you have said that firms would now have to meet 'certain minimum uniform criteria.' What are those criteria?

The last thing that Freddie and Fannie need are law firms to drive them into further trouble than the American people already hold them accountable for.

What I do object to is your having no discussions with Mr. Goldstein.

But they have not agreed to share space when it comes to active judges.

You not only are doing that, and we never--this committee has never stood for inflexibility.

The Judicial Conference of the United States controls how taxpayer money is going to be spent for courthouses.

It is going to be very hard to get any money from the appropriators or anybody else in the Congress of the United States to do anything.

But that doesn't mean that the authorizers ought to be ignored.

I don't want the result of this committee hearing to be that we authorized you, in spite of what looks to be a change in the scope, to go forward without coming back to this committee.

You are here today because this committee called you here today.

I submit it as one I am familiar with, which illustrates my impatience with--your impatience with the GAO report.

I have been on this committee for 20 years. I have never seen you come back to this committee and say to the committee, we have new specifications that we need.

What a beautiful courthouse, the Prettyman Courthouse is.

That is why I asked you in my prior round of questions whether there was ever any intent to abandon Prettyman. Nobody builds an annex with the thought in mind that all the judges will no longer be in the historic courthouse.

I don't think you were doing us any favor, Mr. Peck.

It is routine for Federal agencies to attack the investigator. Everybody does it.

So meeting with people all the time is not responsive to my question.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. You know, Mr. Peck, when you look at a courthouse like the Prettyman Courthouse, you walk into that courthouse, this is the main courthouse in the District of Columbia, it is a perfectly suitable building, but it…

You betcha, Judge Morrow. You betcha it is going to require it.

I want to say on the record that this project is not an exception to the mandate of this committee regarding changes in the scope of a project.

I just want to say that we have been following the prospectuses as you outline, and I associate myself with your comments.

Believe me, you don't have any choice.

Request to include letter from Hon. Jose F. Serrano, a Representative in Congress from the State of New York

I think that was fair.

It was for me to learn that we would be losing Jerry Costello, for many, many reasons.