monosomething else. it s costing you billions, yes billions. here s griff jenkins with congressman mica. reporter: with nearly 900,000 properties and 3 billion square feet, many properties are under-utilized, mismanaged or sitting empty, costing the taxpayers billions of dollars. we are just blocks from the u.s. capitol, where this building, opened by the gsa has been sitting empty over five years. congressman john mica of the transportation and infrastructure committee wants something done about it. congressman, where are we? well, we near an empty federal building that has been vacant for five years, costing the taxpayer a lot of money. as you can see, there is nobody here. reporter: and in this particular building, you said, it has been empty five years,
monosomething else. it s costing you billions, yes billions. here s griff jenkins with congressman mica. reporter: with nearly 900,000 properties and 3 billion square feet, many properties are under-utilized, mismanaged or sitting empty, costing the taxpayers billions of dollars. we are just blocks from the u.s. capitol, where this building, opened by the gsa has been sitting empty over five years. congressman john mica of the transportation and infrastructure committee wants something done about it. congressman, where are we? well, we near an empty federal building that has been vacant for five years, costing the taxpayer a lot of money. as you can see, there is nobody here. reporter: and in this particular building, you said, it has been empty five years, whose building is it?
compidateicated complicated that i imagine you are frustrated by it. i am very frustrated by t. today, after we finished, i gave a floor speech for 40-45 minutes about our history of taxation in america, and the fact we are heading in the wrong direction. returning the tax code is one of the important parts to restoring economic security here in the united states of america. but that s not something that we have a willing partner to confront in the senate side and definitely from the administration. greta: congressman, thank you, sir. always a pleasure, greta. greta: coming up, was the gsa s vegas convention just the tip of the iceberg isn t government spending on something else that is really costing you big time. what is it? well, congressman john mica will show you. you probably department see this one coming. a wisconsin supreme court justice accused of choking another justice, that s weird,
congressman mica will be here to talk about the investigation into the gsa s massive spending spree. the extradition process for joran vander mroemploying is no underway for trying to export money from natalie hollow ways mother. he is the mane suspect in the disappearance of natalee holloway. he is serving 28 years in prison for killing stephanie flores in 2010. what a view. check this out. nasa putting together a time lapsed photography. the stunning images set to their own sound track. the soung walking in the air by howard blakes. the light displays and weather systems were taken by the
long before it was made public. he claims the white house chose to do nothing about it. they knew about this and they were also told again to sop the nonsense, to stop the waste and possible criminal activity and nobody did anything. martha: we re going to ask congressman mica about that. he also tore into this man, jeffrey neely, who has become well-known to all of us. he is the one who planned that more than $800,000 event. he has repeatedly pleaded the fifth questioned about, even his name or if even worked there. he did not bother to show up to yesterday s hearing. mr. neely is not with us today. we had requested that he be with us and he has i guess taken the fifth in another committee and is not appearing today against the, one of the requests that, at least i made for him to be with us. i guess only way we ll get to see him is on a video in