Chris Van Hollen

I think it is a really important point on the concentration.

So I think those are all really good points.

Wells Fargo is 'too big to manage'.

It's pretty simple--for each pay raise or bonus for workers, companies are often spending a hundred or two hundred times as much on stock buybacks and executive compensation.

The ink was barely dry when we began to hear calls for spending cuts that will hurt families across the country.

Those tax cuts are not free-they will add over a trillion dollars to the deficit.

If you could get back to us--I mean, this is a publicly reported document. Would you be willing to get back to us and let us know, confirm or say one way or another?

The predictions were $4,000-a-year pay increases.

Stock buybacks are primarily a way for corporations to increase the share price.

I am just curious if the President meant what he said.

The President has now said on a number of occasions that he does support an increase in the gas tax to fund this $200 billion plan.

Isn't that part of the plan?

We do not know what the source of funding exactly will be, but you are cutting... well over $200 billion in infrastructure.

I support many of these private-public partnerships. You and I have worked together on the Purple Line in Maryland.

When it comes to modernizing our infrastructure, this is an issue that brings people together.

I just want to associate myself with Senator Cardin's comments and questions with respect to both the success of Poplar Island in the Bay and the Mid Bay project.

Mr. Chairman, I would just ask if I could put into the record some of the documents I cited during my questioning, as well as a Washington Post column discussing the President's interest in keeping the FBI building in its current site as…

Just for the record, neither witness has answered the question, Mr. Chairman. I think it is pretty clear from the record.

This is a legitimate question for the public.

Are you aware of any conversations or communications that any member of the Administration has had with the President of the United States about the project?

Mr. Chairman, I think the Committee deserves an answer to that question. It is a yes or no question whether people are aware of any conversations that anyone in the Administration has had with the President about this project.

That is just yes or no. Are you aware of any conversations had by any member of the Administration with the President of the United States about this project?

Are either of you gentlemen--are either of you familiar with any conversations that any members of your agency have had with the President of the United States about this decision with respect to the FBI building?

I would suggest that we now can look at the funding for the original project, which would have gone through at one of the other three facilities and met what the FBI has told us for years would meet its mission requirements.

Right. So the Administration's position at the time was we want to move forward with these other options, but we are not going to provide full funding.