David McKinley: “H.R 2065 would mandate that these public and nonprofits organizations are in compliance with Life Safety Code.”

With all due respect, Chairman Rush--and we have been friends for years--this hearing seems to be taking on an air of distraction from what Americans are really dealing with across this country.

I think what you are doing by your memo is you are only going to make it worse.

But now it is five years later, and this committee, I think, apparently now, we are looking to see how it has been implemented.

But it appears to me the policies that have been put forth in the last ten months are doing diametrically opposite.