"Thank you very much."
"I told you it would be challenging."
"How much of your request is due to your prioritization as the leader of the police force and your fellow officers and direction from the Capitol Police Board or the Sergeant?"
"I, for one, lament that we do not have a House page program any longer."
"We want security, but we do not want security to the detriment of everything else that makes Congress work."
"A brilliant question. Thank you very much."
"Much has been made by many Members about the need for us to return to regular order in both the appropriations process and the process that we are using to move legislation."
"What is the readiness state of the police? we have given you upwards of 8 to 10 percent increases with flatlining the other agencies."
"Are you in a posture where you will just ask for whatever we will give you and you will take whatever we will give you because you could always put it to good use?"
"Those funds were fenced off specifically to fund approaches to keep us safe in the wake of mass casualty attacks."
"I remember, Mr. Chairman, when I was the chair of this subcommittee, and it is a question that I still ask any agency head to respond to: there are the 'got to haves' and the 'nice to haves.'"