Dina Titus

Well, I think I have been very public about the fact that all Presidents should divest their conflicting financial interests, and the same is true for the current President.

To more completely address the report's findings and detail how the GSA would correct the deficiencies.

The GSA general counsel's inadequate response to the report's conclusions.

The GSA's Office of Inspector General released a report on how the agency had handled the lease.

Members of this subcommittee have concerns about GSA's actions in response to congressional oversight requests.

It is my understanding that Chairs DeFazio and Titus have taken issue with the GSA's refusal to comply fully with document requests from this committee.

We also heard from the GSA and the IG that it used to be a best practice--that is their word--a best practice of the GSA to put something in the lease like section 37.19 that prohibits Members of Congress or elected officials or members of…

Can you commit that the GSA will conduct a legal review of the Emoluments Clauses as they pertain to the Trump DC Hotel?

The President of the United States is an elected official of the Government.

I found that astounding.

This hearing is focused on the Old Post Office Building lease and the GSA's failure to properly account for the Emoluments provisions.

Suggestions that the committee does not have oversight authority to look into the Old Post Office lease... is frankly ridiculous.

This oversight should not be a partisan issue.

Congress' oversight authority is broad and this Committee's oversight of GSA leasing arrangements is clear.

I would like to remind GSA that they are a federal agency and not an arm of the Trump Organization.

We should be wise enough to enforce them.

The government lease for Trump's D.C. hotel explicitly states that the tenant may not use the premises to violate federal law 'for any purpose or in any way.'

The Constitution contains two clauses pertinent to our topic today: One prevents an elected official from receiving 'any present [or Emolument] . . . from any King, Prince, or foreign state' . . . 'without the Consent of Congress.'

The federal government owns the building that houses President Trump's D.C. hotel.

It is shameful, and yet it is what we have come to expect from an executive branch that continues to stonewall Congress.

How can we know that taxpayers' investments are being protected if we can't examine the financial records of the hotel?

GSA hasn't even pretended to conduct that review.

GSA officials have turned a blind eye to these legal and ethical issues.

The GSA recognized that the President's business interest in the Old Post Office lease raised issues under the Constitution's Emoluments Clause that might cause a breach of lease.

No elected official of the Government of the United States shall be admitted to any share or part of this lease