"Thank you for being here. Let me just say first off, I wanted to thank you, Inspector General, and specifically Gil Harden, for meeting with my office and accepting our request, along with Representative Fitzpatrick, for a new audit of the USDA's Animal Plant Health Inspection Services Animal Care u..."
"When we talk about this appropriations process, and it is like, Well, hey, if you want a Federal building or whatever, then that costs money."
"If it could include also, to the extent that your agency knows, its lease portfolio in that neck of the woods, I would like an idea of that."
"Can you send somebody from your Department under your supervision to my office to give us a briefing on this?"
"I would hope that the leases that the department has entered into, especially in areas that are prone to flooding, wind, etc., we talk about whose responsibility it is to fix those."
"I want to make sure that the $96 million is for hurricane assistance recovery."
"The reason that I am asking that is because, in my State, where 86 percent of it is owned by the Federal Government..."
"This looks like a pretty comprehensive look at an area that you folks have some responsibility in."
"We are not upgrading or adding to Forest Service assets. We are fixing what existed the day before the storm."
"Listen, I am not anticipating it, but if that happens, it would be nice to know that, hey, guess what?"
"if this is knowingly or unknowingly prohibiting the opportunity for promotion from within, I just kind of want to know that you guys have thought about it"