Excerpt from Oversight of Pending Public Building Projects: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Water Resources, Transportation, Public Buildings, and Economic Development of the Committee on Environment and Public Works United States Senate, One Hundred Third Congress, First Session, November 18, 1993 U. S. Senate, Committee on Environment and Public Works, Subcommittee on Water Resources, Transportation, Public Building, and Economic Development, Washington, DC. The Subcommittee met, pursuant to notice, at 10:08 a. m. in room 406, Dirksen Senate Office Building, Hon. Howard M. Metzenbaum [acting Chairman of the Subcommittee] presiding. Present: Senators Metzenbaum, Reid, Warner, Simpson, and Baucus. Opening Statement Of Hon. Howard M. Metzenbaum, U. S. Senator From The State Of Ohio Senator Metzenbaum. The Subcommittee will come to order. Let me start by thanking Roger Johnson, the Administrator of GSA, for appearing here today and bringing along his team, which has been very cooperative. The purpose of today's hearing is to find out from GSA what it thinks about the projects which await this Committee's review and authorization. We are also eager to hear about GSA's overall "Timeout and Review" on over 200 major real estate projects, but our first concern is over the smaller subset of projects contained in the Treasury, Postal Service, and General Government Appropriations Act, recently enacted into law. Based on our conversation yesterday, I understand, Mr. Johnson, that at this point you are not going to give this Committee all that it needs to evaluate these projects, but we understand that we will have them soon. When you came before the Committee in September we told you we needed quick action from GSA because the Committee has a February 1 deadline to determine whether taxpayer dollars will be well spent on a specific group of projects. The Treasury appropriations bill, enacted last month, funded 31 new GSA construction projects totalling $1 billion. This Committee fought hard during the appropriations process to protect its ability to authorize - or to disapprove - these projects, depending on their individual merit. Despite my amendment to protect this Committee's jurisdiction, this Committee almost got cut out of the process during final negotiations with the House. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.