Thank you, Mr. Chairman. For the first question, I would like to ask a quick question to Administrator Shaw.

We should have been prepared for this, and I look at your organization as something that should be ready, not just for this one but for the next one, too.

We have known about this since 1970. This is not a new virus. This is something we should have been prepared for as a government.

What is the expected cost in the next year to treat and contain if things stay pretty static the way they are or, you know, the predicted growth of this, what would you predict that cost would be?

All right. So we are seeing focal outbreaks?

The regime has taken out life insurance policies on behalf of its workers, but instead of naming the families as beneficiaries...

We need to keep the science first and foremost.

We want to know where people are going.

I understand there is a desire to obviously protect Americans from Ebola, and I want to do everything I can to ensure that my constituents are not exposed to the virus.

It was very encouraging to see that Africa's most populated country, Nigeria, was successful in containing the recent outbreak of Ebola.

It is appalling that the Obama administration officials are praising the Castro communist dictators for forcing these workers...

If we isolate these countries, the rest of the world will isolate these countries.

I want to raise an issue that is bound to be raised by others here and that we have heard being raised time and time again since we have had the outbreak of the Ebola crisis.

Since our Africa and Global Health Subcommittee held a hearing on Ebola in September, the number of cases has nearly tripled.

on average, seven bombing missions a day compared to what we had previously done in prior engagements seems far too little and somewhat too late.

I wish they would just say, 'We are going to defeat ISIS.'

spending $500 million in trying to train 500 'moderate' rebels to take on 40,000 to 80,000 jihadists doesn't seem like a sound strategy to defeat this group of radicals.

I don't believe in the philosophy that if we tighten the rules to get into the United States that with encourage people to come illegally.