Chris Van Hollen

Well, as I mentioned, Mr. Chairman, we have looked at the demolish option in the past.

Clearly not as secure as the others, which is so obvious.

The status quo today is not acceptable.

The current location of the FBI building is probably the worst of all the agencies in the intelligence community.

I would suggest it is not just intuitively; that is according to the facts and the experts.

Your testimony today is that rebuilding at the current location would be less secure for the FBI than moving to one of the other campus sites, isn't that correct?

I think you can both understand why we are having major whiplash up here, given the long history of positions that both your agencies have taken on this project.

This is a textbook example of how the Federal Government should not operate over a period of time.

Especially when you reduce the top rate, which was not required to be done in order to close loopholes.

The average tax cut for a millionaire was $67,000, according to Joint Tax.

I hope you will work with us, especially as it relates to issues of eliminating the deduction for State and local taxes.

123,000 Maryland families who make between $25,000 and $50,000 a year are going to get tax hikes.

376,000 Maryland families are going to get a tax increase as a result of the bill that passed the Congress.

Households that make more than $1 million per year will get an average tax cut of $64,000 in 2019 alone.

This comes as no surprise since this Administration looks like a retreat for Goldman Sachs executives.

The middle class is not just getting the short end of the tax bill.

Think about that. That is 288 times more spent to juice their stock than the cost of raising workers' pay--288 times.

I will be the first to acknowledge when a company does the right thing and boosts wages.

American companies will be enticed to do that even more because companies could owe absolutely nothing to the IRS on overseas manufacturing operations.

The tax bill raises health care premiums--we know that--it gives a huge boost to the richest people in the country--we know that--and it could encourage more outsourcing.

The policies of this Administration and this Congress are only making these problems worse.

It is actually American citizens removing their own human waste from their house because they don't have sewer systems.

There was no process. That was a huge Federal overreach. I appreciate your drawing that back.

I hope we will agree on a bipartisan basis that no agency should be basing its decision on politics.

We should not get to the point where EPA is making politically driven decisions on contracts where EPA is previously, ever, on political grounds.