Debbie Wasserman Schultz

I know that some might be concerned about my going there. But if you are not a woman, it is tough to understand that when you need a feminine hygiene product you need one immediately.

We might disagree on the merits of the cases, Mr. Chairman, that is not my issue.

Mr. Chairman, I did have other questions for the remaining officers. And I would think there would be more questions for this group than there is going to be for the Library and for the Copyright Office.

And that is my concern as well, is we need CRS to be responsive.

They also have the responsibility to be truthful when they are asked questions.

I am getting extremely frustrated. I don't think I am getting veracity in the responses to my question.

We are not securing all the garages. So if I am a terrorist, I am going to go to the garage that is not secure.

I look forward to the GAO recommendations, but I remain concerned.

My specific question is, do you think there needs to be reform to the way the Capitol Police Board functions and makes decisions in order for us to ensure that we don't have to rely on you being willing to sit down with us in a meeting?

So if that was something that this subcommittee chose to review, I could only talk to you about it, to the Chief, and maybe the Architect of the Capitol, who, by the way, also sits on the Police Board, which most people don't realize.

I am concerned that you built a budget request that doesn't probably line up with your report.

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.

That is what you do when you are in the know about what is coming.

I just met with the acting Librarian, and he expressed a strong desire for it to happen, and they need it.

I appreciate that the Sergeants each go to one another when there is concern from the other side.

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.

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?

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...

But, potentially, we could have to have a reconstruction or a redesign that could cost far more than that?

How much would you say you plan to spend to address the problems thus far, and what do you anticipate it costing going forward?

What is the timetable for determining why this happened and what the cause was and/or reopening the range?

Yes, they do. They do, and they have their own dorm. Ours is closed.

I think that would be extremely helpful.

That is a very large commitment to never actually have gone through the planning process that we have here.

This is no way to run a rodeo, and this might prove to be a need that is more urgent than it has been up to now.