与1月6日致命的骚乱在美国国会大厦在立法者的思想中，国会大厦的建筑师J. Brett Blanton告诉众议院委员会，他支持国会大厦区域中“有针对性”的围栏，这些围栏被认为是最脆弱的。

Appearing at a March 11 House Appropriations subcommittee hearing on the fiscal 2022 budget for the Architect of the Capitol operation, Blanton explained and defended his要求将其增加6700万美元，或8％，至8.65亿美元。

该请求包括超过7800万美元用于延期维护，近9000万美元用于更新或改善老化基础设施的项目，例如国会大厦的火灾报警系统，校园入侵，环境系统和电气分配。新利18备用网址

虚拟听证会上最令人恐惧的披露也许涉及布兰顿（Blanton）的680万美元请求，以更新他所谓的国会大厦的“ hodgepodge”火力支持系统。在国会山的袭击中，他描绘了潜在的灾难性火种箱的照片。

"To me, that was one of the scariest things once the breach happened." said Blanton. "If somebody decided that they were going to light something on fire, what would we have been able to do to get the people out, as well as prevent the facilities from burning down?”

Blanton also told the subcommittee that a lack of “financial support” for required COVID-19 mitigation measures throughout the Capitol campus has forced his office to dip into funds for critical infrastructure and security projects. Instead, Blanton has shifted funds to cover the cost of “enhanced cleaning” and personal protective equipment.

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布兰顿还作证说，维持临时围栏来保护这一综合大楼，因为违规每周耗资120万美元。新利18备用官网登录

But he noted that officials have been decreasing the fence line “in small increments.” He added that the his office is working with the US Dept. of Defense and US Capitol Police to shrink it “as much as possible and allow as much access [to the Capitol] as possible.”

代理国会大厦警察局长在内的一些官员，包括Yogananda D. Pittman呼吁永久围栏around the Capitol. But Blanton’s security philosophy seems to be more in line with a congressional security review led by retired US Army Lt. Gen. Russel L. Honoré.

Honoré的工作队于3月8日推荐的除其他安全措施外，还要围绕该综合大楼部署移动围栏，以维持获得美国最明显的民主象征的机会。

布兰顿告诉委员会，永久击剑将“非常非常非常昂贵”，同时安装“有针对性的围栏”，在他的办公室可以在需要时添加围栏的位置，“预期费用较小”。

他说，他将“优先考虑”有针对性的围栏“因此，我们可以早些时候开始向国会获取信息，而不是等待整个事情要做，并说，'这是我们可以做的事情。'透明

In response to Subcommittee Chairman Tim Ryan (D-Ohio) on how much a permanent fence solution would cost, Blanton said he “hates to be wishy-washy” but added that the cost depends on several variables, including how much area the fence will cover.

他还说，长期成本取决于围栏的存放位置，如何运输新利18备用官网登录，竖立和分解以及其维护费用是多少。布兰顿说：“这些都是我们想看的。”“当我查看这些项目时，我会查看总拥有成本；新利18备用网址因此，我们将在一段时间内看一下。”

瑞安说：“好吧，我们将寻求一些帮助，弄清楚成本是多少，围栏和可移动的技术以及所有其他的技术。”新利18备用官网登录他补充说：“我们将依靠您寻求帮助，以弄清楚这一点。”

Blanton said his operation is working with the US Army Corps of Engineers on a comprehensive security assessment that incorporates “all the other studies that are out there and make sure that we can build it into one cohesive executable strategy.”

布兰顿立即说，国会大厦北和南入口的安全前庭设计将于4月开始。这些检查站是2008年开业的6亿美元国会大厦游客中心的补充。

该地下设施的设计是使几乎每个进入国会大厦建筑群的人都可以从距建筑物本身的足球场长度的安全检查站来完成。

Deferred Maintenance

Blanton also told the subcommittee he is planning two legislative proposals to address how projects are funded. One would allow the Architect of the Capitol to use public-private partnerships. The other would authorize enhanced-use leases to lease underutilized property under the operation’s purview to private contractors to build such things as solar farms.

To start chipping away at a long-term $1.8-billion deferred-maintenance backlog, Blanton wants to develop an Enterprise Asset Management to help operate, maintain and renew facilities and infrastructure assets. The Architect of the Capitol oversees more than 18.4 million sq ft of facilities, 570 acres of grounds and thousands of works of art, according to its网站。

As an example of deferred maintenance, Blanton told lawmakers that work to fix inoperable gates to the Rayburn House Office Building parking garage did not start until after the Jan. 6 Capitol breach.

“I’m grateful that the mob didn’t know that there’s major areas of entrances [that] didn’t work,” Rep. Jaime Herrera Beutler (R-Wash.) told Blanton.