John Mica

Again, we have made some progress in accounting and some progress in paying down debt and lessening some of the subsidies.

We should do it as efficiently as possible, particularly in a time of taxpayer losses.

The problem is sometimes Congress, in that it sets up the parameters by which Amtrak operates.

Do you know any reason why she shouldn't step down as Secretary when she makes a remark like that?

We will spend over $150 trillion over that period of time, just to put the trillion dollars in perspective.

I am offended by the Secretary of Homeland Security to tell us and the American people that they are going to be subject to her form of torture.

Of course, when you read the sequestration order, you understand that there is not as much discretion to the executive branch as some might think.

We never intended Homeland Security to bloat to this extent.

This is one of the most shameful things I have seen any agency do, and you are bloated beyond control.

The Administration, unfortunately, has gone around touting the alleged harmful consequences of sequestration. Some of them are over the top.

I look forward to working with Mr. Connolly as we drill deeper into some of the issues of waste, fraud, and abuse, and how we can eliminate some of that unnecessary spending and cost and actually do a better job in a time of sequestration…

This is a broken system, when we are closing down and sequestering vital services of Government, and we have billions of dollars of waste.

We could save money, we could house our chief law enforcement agency, the FBI, and provide some of this space.

Sorry, Ms. Norton, you got screwed in this whole process, I saw, with the Senate resolution.

That has some value to the Federal Government.

So you are not going to have the money. So you look at your alternatives.

Nobody can make a decision or meet a timeline.

Thank you, GSA, for helping her, because your RFI, whatever, your Request for Information, actually allowed the District to be considered, property in the District.

That is astounding, that it has taken you a year to negotiate. What the hell would you doing, when you should have been having a deal that was close to just sewing up? It is unbelievable.

I will bet there isn't a clue as to what to do with it.

So somebody has got to make a damn decision of moving forward. When do you expect that will be?

That would cost quite a bit of money.

So there would be some savings?

I am absolutely appalled at what I am finding as we continue our work, looking at these.

This Administration has been the least transparent and least responsive to the public and to the Congress.