John Mica

Twenty thousand and 500 successes doesn't sound like a good batting average to me.

Doesn't sound like a very good batting average.

I think that is something else we need to change.

It is difficult enough when you have somebody who is confirmed, let alone someone who is in an acting position, to get things done.

Mr. Chairman, rulemaking is not lawmaking; it just looks like it.

So tax cheats at the IRS get access to my tax information, while even if I have been persecuted directly by the IRS, I can't get that.

Well, it sounds like TSA has cleaned up some of the problems.

What percentage of FOIA requests to TSA are denied or redacted due to the targeted information carrying the SSI designation, do you have any idea?

Has the TSA implemented proper protocols to ensure that the TSA administrator is documenting support for releasing SSI prior to releasing the information?

The witness testimony and documents show that TSA officials manipulated SSI designations to prevent the release of non-SSI documents.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman, Mr. Smith, and staff. I look forward to working with the committee and you and others ensuring that modeling and simulation remains being utilized as a cost-effective tool for our military readiness.

They would be given first preference.

It would be my preference to give those who served the Country an opportunity to have the first show at whatever is available.

Unfortunately in my community, central Florida, about 25 percent of the homeless are veterans.

Again, when you come to obstruction of your work and using taxpayer monies to obstruct, we are reaching about the limits.

Why has the East St. Louis Housing Authority been under government receivership for almost 30 years?

That just burns me. That is unbelievable.

I have been trying to find out what a criminal referral is.

I have advocated for the Federal Government to pay to get the best expertise we can to operate systems and manage operations, attract them and reward people who do a good job.

They are wasted to reduce this. If I was looking at this from a business standpoint, first, I would pass a law that did away with the administrative staff, re-contract this out with a limit and the cost of administration.

Again, it is a high number. If we could turn this over to private sector, I am sure management companies would chomp at the bit to get 29 percent of billions of dollars going out.

I have always said the Federal Government should not be a slum lord and that we should be responsible.

This is where people should live and have public housing.

They were using Federal money.

One of the most devastating attacks--well, most devastating attacks I can recall is the McVeigh bombing in Oklahoma.