John Mica

We've lost a billion dollars in 12 years in food--Amtrak food service.

Sounds like we need to do a little bit better job of driver training at Amtrak.

Well, that's a, again, unfortunate but, again, something we have to pay attention to.

We haven't had the cost-benefit analysis of looking at whether it's better to lease than purchase.

They could have purchased new for 295,000. They did a 44-month commercial lease and paid 422,000?

The IG of Amtrak produced a very good report.

I look forward to examining today what specific steps we can take to enhance the President's efforts to ensure the Federal fleet is as cost-effective and fuel-efficient as possible.

I just want to know what we are doing preemptively to help people who have been hacked who have worked for the Federal Government or are working for the Federal Government.

What is the remedy? I mean ----

I guaran-damn-tee you--and put that in the record, it is a new word--that this will continue to be a disaster the way it sounds like you are putting it together.

Oh, folks, hang on to your shorts on this one. By the time you get the IT in place and the money you are going to spend, and then by the time you get OPM up and running, I mean, you can't even get the personnel to do the manual processing…

It is a half a million backlogs right now. We don't have a system in place.

They spent a quarter of a billion dollars setting that up, and then now they are still doing it by hand.

I think we have reached the absolute bottom of the pit.

I think there needs to be a great deal of public awareness and education before doing that.

I guess there was some effort in Florida to curtail some mosquito-borne threats in Florida using that approach.

I appreciate your making it known publicly.

We're trying to get everybody who is involved here, their testimony.

We want our U.S. team to participate, to be protected, and we want our visitors also to have that.

Florida has set a model already for the United States.

The way you stop that is you stop the mosquito, like we have gone after West Nile.

I was told Alzheimer's and some other disease. You can't rob Peter to pay Paul.

We need to tell our colleagues. The request is in. The President gave it to us last week.

I mean, we do a lot of things around here by executive order. We shift money.

My whole question is: There's some money available. Do you have money to address this now?