Ben Cardin

This is an opportunity for political intervention and for Congress to fund things appropriately and specifically.

Security you rank first. There's been at least three other issues that have been raised. That is the air conditioning, the plumbing, the electrical.

I take it from your testimony you would be supportive of a creative opportunity in that regard?

I'm not sure that you're going to get support on the appropriate use of Federal funds at this time to change an entrance to the courthouse.

The threat issues are a lot different today.

This building is not set back, as you would have a building built today, correct?

I am not going to support new judges unless I think there's adequate space for the existing judges.

I appreciate it very much, Ms. Brita.

So is this building adequate from the point of view of blast protection?

But when I have no secure sally port, when I have no independent corridors, when I have judges' chambers that are right off public corridors...

I would just urge you to work very closely with this committee and the subcommittees of geographical interest.

I say that as a friend of your agency, but one who's going to be looking very carefully at the basis of your certifications, as it relates to fighting corruption and gender equity.

There is an expectation that our participation in any country depends upon that country's commitment to root out corruption.

One of our more significant commitments is in Afghanistan.

U.S. global development and U.S. foreign aid are critically important to our national security concerns.

They're part of what we call our 'three-D strategies'--the development assistance, defense, and diplomacy.

I think it's time, and I'm--Afghanistan, I hope everything works well.

What assurances can you give us that, in making that judgment, you will comply not just with the spirit, but the letter, of what we're trying to accomplish?

What is, I think, surprising to most Americans is the amount of money America spends on its foreign assistance.

I think that is the right way to proceed and I am curious as to why Pennsylvania and other States are still allowing the back-flow to enter treatment facility plants.

I hope that you will respond to the urgency of some of these issues.

Without objection, it will be included in the record.

According to our information, I think there is somewhere around 19 States that are using diesel as part of their injection process.

The Chesapeake Bay Foundation and a host of other groups have petitioned the Obama administration to conduct a programmatic environmental impact statement.

It is my understanding there are still seven wastewater treatment facility plants taking today the fluids coming out of fracking.