John Mica actually said...

"Oh, folks, hang on to your shorts on this one. By the time you get the IT in place and the money you are going to spend, and then by the time you get OPM up and running, I mean, you can't even get the..."

"I guaran-damn-tee you--and put that in the record, it is a new word--that this will continue to be a disaster the way it sounds like you are putting it together."

"It is a half a million backlogs right now. We don't have a system in place."

"They spent a quarter of a billion dollars setting that up, and then now they are still doing it by hand."