John Mica

Are they sleeping at OMB?

Well, we can change the law.

I want a complete one-pager, break it down so even an idiot can understand it as to where you are in that process so I can dismantle whatever you are doing.

The consolidation of that single building over 20 years would save a half a billion dollars in taxpayer money.

DHS, no. We need to be dismantling DHS. One of the biggest mistakes we ever made was putting it together.

If GSA does not send a witness to my next hearing, they will be subpoenaed or I will come and sit in their office until I get the answers.

$72 million. Thank you.

We are actually losing ground from last year.

I call it 'Fantasyland finances' of Amtrak.

If we privatized the Northeast Corridor, opened it to competition--we will just say opened it to private competition--Amtrak would be put out of business in a nanosecond because it is still a Soviet-style train operation.

To the point, Mr. Chairman, it has been the custom afforded in this committee that always extended to the previous chairman...

The Federal Government subsidizes all forms of transportation.

Without Amtrak's long-distance service, 23 States and 223 communities would have no access to intercity passenger rail.

As our Nation's transportation infrastructure falls further and further into disrepair, we are focused on terminating our country's national rail system.

I think it is important that we take time to better understand Amtrak and how it operates.

The sequestration will be eliminated.

I guess if Amazon could get a little bit more experience under their belt, maybe they could get certified.

The other thing too, Gerry, is we are asking people to dismantle sort of the standard operating safe procedure...

Isn't GSA the one that's doing the certification, or responsible for it?

There is no way Congress is going to continue to allow this process to go forward without cost saving being a major criterion.

The minute somebody makes a mistake, if somebody thinks there's political advantage in exploiting that mistake, we have a hearing and we haul you before Congress and we threaten you with subpoenas.

I can't even begin to imagine how much we spend in sort of a mundane process, not that there aren't variations for background checks and all kinds of information to be combined.

So we need to get, first of all, some stability in the certification process, and people certified, then some motivation, and some empowerment of those charged with this responsibility to move forward, and again, some accountability in the…

Does anybody know how many cloud certification requests are pending?

I’m not a happy camper, Mr. Connolly, that OMB and GSA have chosen not to provide us a witness this morning.