But, potentially, we could have to have a reconstruction or a redesign that could cost far more than that?
Debbie Wasserman Schultz
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I mentioned in my testimony the Capitol dome project being in the home stretch, and I wanted to ask you whether you expect that it is going to come in at the full $126 million expenditure...
Can you address the real issue of reduced oversight on our part if we allow you to move some of those separate appropriations to a working capital fund?
Well, it would be important if we allow that shift to make sure that we put a mechanism in place that ensures that we can maintain the same oversight we have been able to under the current way you do it.
I appreciate that the Sergeants each go to one another when there is concern from the other side.
That is a very large commitment to never actually have gone through the planning process that we have here.
I just met with the acting Librarian, and he expressed a strong desire for it to happen, and they need it.
So you initiated it on your own because in your analysis you decided, without any outside influence or pressure, that this was necessary and so essential that we remove it from the regular order process.
I am concerned that you built a budget request that doesn't probably line up with your report.





