John Mica

I think, you know, in a time when we are running multitrillion-dollar deficits that we have got to look at every activity of Government.

Thank you so much, and I thank Members. If other Members have questions or other additional inquiries that they would like to submit to our witnesses, I welcome them, and I ask unanimous consent that today's record be kept open for a…

We will convene additional hearings here when we come back in September, and I invite Members to participate in the field hearings that are scheduled.

I am sorry you got the short straw today and you are down the totem pole and fairly new and the others have ducked and either hidden for cover.

I have got people in my district losing their homes, their jobs, they are struggling to make ends meet.

$104,000 for a 1-day conference. I mean, I am in the wrong--there are a lot of people in the wrong business out there.

It seems something is not right.

It is amazing. I am not an attorney, Mr. Miller, but the way you ask the question and the response you get from the agency is when they tell us and we ask a question, how much in bonuses, I guess you can skew or respond in a different…

I think our initial inquiries were thwarted on that. But I have particular interest in that.

This, as I said in my opening statement, is a delicate situation. We have what started out as a small scandal now turning into a massive scandal with a number of people who have been involved.

$350 million lease, subverting this committee. We have a major crisis.

The Administration feels that they can bypass Congress, breaking three different laws written in statute.

I think the question the taxpayer wants answered is: Why? Why are these agencies ignoring the President of the United States?

I hope there will be lots of inquiries and discipline to those that have thought that they could just move ahead without any punitive action or any repercussions.

I am going to ask the American people who are watching these hearings to take this matter into their hands.

Request to submit Congressional Research Service memo entitled, "Analyzing Restrictions on Amtrak Food and Beverage Services," from Alissa Dolan, Legislative Attorney, to Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, July 26, 2012

This deserves the attention of the President of the United States.

You go after people, and you have tough enforcement, and you curtail the bastards, pardon my French, and stop them.

I am a zero tolerance guy. I worked with Rudy Giuliani when he did that in New York.

Do we have a plan to deal, I mean, almost all of the narcotics and violence and precursors are coming out of Mexico?

If you are telling me Mexico is still the source and it continues to be the primary source, that is correct?

Part of the problem of the situation I think we are in is Congress, 4 years the other side of the aisle was in charge, and I don't recall a single hearing.

If the gentleman from West Virginia is ready to close, I am ready to close, also.

I am pleased to yield 1\1/2\ minutes to the gentlewoman from Washington (Ms. Herrera Beutler), another conferee and a young leader in the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee.

I am pleased to yield 2 minutes to the distinguished gentlewoman from West Virginia (Mrs. Capito), who has worked very hard for a provision, and she's going to explaining the situation that brings her here at this point.