Debbie Wasserman Schultz

So, Mr. Chairman, I would ask that you consider when you prepare your chairman's mark, this as an example of where we are shortchanging our own needs by not having the kind of expertise over a long extended period of time at CRS.

Do you have goals to increase diversity?

Diversity has been a problem.

What happens when you have a disagreement with the board on the direction that your mission should take?

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Chief, welcome. And it is a pleasure to work with you.

I wanted to just ask you about the lead issue in Cannon and where we are.

We need more savings.

I think $10 million is too little.

Mr. Chairman, I don't want to presume that you are unfamiliar or familiar with, a number of years ago, we established a House Historic Buildings Preservation Revitalization Trust Fund for the very reason that drove the question…

Thank you. Mr. Ayers, thanks for the really incredibly good job that you have done and your stewardship over the Architect of the Capitol, and thanks to your staff because I think they are among the finest in the country.

Did you include that in your customer satisfaction survey?

They would have a lot of nerve requesting a price increase unless they improved dramatically what they offer in the cafeterias.

I do have one additional question.

We have had jurisdictional issues and a challenging time conducting oversight because of the structure of the Capitol Police Board.

But there are times through the years--and I have been involved with this for over 10 years now--that you have not had confidence or we have not had--you know, the Board--total confidence in the Chief.

I mean, it would seem to me that we are leaving gaping holes in our cyber network, our cybersecurity network, if every Member isn't informed and every office isn't well aware of what is appropriate for use and approved and what isn't.

Given the IT director's answers to some of my questions, Mr. Kiko, I would like to know why, if we established a rule in October that Members are not to use Dropbox, why throughout I don't know how long we have only been engaging in…

But before October of 2016, Dropbox was authorized for usage?

Starting to enforce the blocking of the usage of Dropbox?

If a Member is using Dropbox and they have not gotten permission since January of 2016 to use Dropbox...

Thank you, Mr. Chairman.

I think we need to go back to the drawing board.

When I got on the Appropriations Committee, I inherited, as the then-chair of the Leg Branch Subcommittee, helping to bring in for a landing the really unbelievably blown timeline and cost of the CVC.

The frustrating thing here is that the VA--and I say VA, not you--but the VA's foot-dragging and missteps have become our emergency.

And we do appreciate you being here on fairly short notice so that we can discuss the VA's efforts to modernize its electronic health records platform.