"Do you think unauthorized Federal programs should be funded?"
"That is a $220 million increase. So how could they go so wrong, in such a huge disparity of projected cost and then actual cost?"
"From what I understand, the initial cost was $752,700,000. Is that right?"
"A simple yes or no will work."
"Absolutely. I am sure the ladies back here that are supporting Alzheimer's funding would want to know that as well."
"And the current projected costs to complete it, are they still $971,300,000?"
"I appreciate your efforts in working with us to make sure that there are no policies in the Sergeant at Arms or the Police Board... that would inhibit us from protecting ourselves."
"There would be service cuts."
"How do you account for paying the contractor money that he actually isn't owed and then not being able to get it back?"
"So services to Congress and the people Congress serves would be severely affected."
"the only bill that has ever made it to the House floor of mine, actually made it through the Senate, it was only a page and a half."