John Mica

The resolution would direct GSA to investigate a sole-source lease on a building in Washington, DC.

I want to see a good and better utilization proposal.

The average citizen across the country... owns these assets.

We have to take these buildings one at a time.

We are on a jihad, a national jihad, to take them, if we have to, one at a time.

As a matter of policy, as a matter of getting the best deal for the taxpayers, that is a bad way for us to operate.

I want to move forward with it.

The Committee will continue to examine programs within its jurisdiction to cut costs, consolidate facilities, eliminate waste, and create efficiencies.

In light of the urgent need to reduce the Federal budget deficit, the Committee is recommending funding reductions for many programs within its jurisdiction.

H.R. 7 provides the stable and predictable funding stream that is necessary for the efficient implementation of long lead-time construction programs.

The FAA Modernization and Reform Act of 2012 ultimately authorized a decrease in funding for the Federal Aviation Administration.

I don't know if it needs to be in law, but maybe in regulation.

I am incredibly saddened to hear of your loss, and our prayers and thoughts are with the families.

What I would suggest we do as a followup is let's convene a roundtable with the Coast Guard and others, and then let's get their recommendations.

Some may say, well, maybe we shouldn't hold this, the hearing, and I said, 'No.'

I must first also identify my remarks with others today who have expressed their sympathy to and condolences to the United States Coast Guard.

I don't know if you read the CQ one on the TSA hearing, where they Googled the--instructed the TSA administrator on 'let Mica ask one question and then take all the time so that he couldn't have another opportunity.'

I returned $2 million to the taxpayers for operation from my committee this past month.

We are going to get that done, and it is going to be one way or the other.

I want to know how much it is going to take to get this done.

This isn't just a Republican idea or a Democrat idea. This is an idea for the American taxpayers.

There is nothing like a hearing to motivate action.

I would be pleased at this time to yield 1 minute to one of the most distinguished chairs of the Transportation Infrastructure Committee, a good friend, the gentleman from Alaska (Mr. Young).

I am pleased to yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from California, a senior member of the Science, Space, and Technology Committee, Mr. Rohrabacher.

I am pleased to yield 2\1/2\ minutes to the young, dynamic leader and chair of the Space and Aeronautics Subcommittee of the Science, Space, and Technology Committee, the gentleman from Mississippi (Mr. Palazzo).