Let me ask you one final question about Singapore since we've been on it.

I've long been an advocate of a multilateral approach, in terms of resolving these sorts of issues.

Different governmental systems have different ways of dealing with problems.

The U.S. Government has long recognized the negative impacts of human trafficking.

This hearing will come to order.

By the way, this whole hearing shouldn't be about Singapore.

I would have to say, I had a number of friends--including a good friend who lives in Singapore--that were sort of amazed at this categorization.

We are trying to do the business of the American people.

In your testimony, you note that South Korea has never prosecuted a citizen for child sex tourism, and that Japan's last prosecution was in 2005.

Today's hearing will examine the impact of our legislation on our antitrafficking efforts in Asia.

I think the SEC has probably not done the oversight it needed to do.

I view this not only personally because of my own family journey but because we up here are the stewards of the service for those who came before us.

We may want to continue the discussion. I hope you can find some sort of resolution here that will honor these people.

We can take the political questions aside. You and I served during the Vietnam era. We know the difference between political questions and actual service.

I think this whole area of seamless transition as it applies to the disability evaluation system is something we really need to get better coordination with between DOD and VBA.

I think as Ranking Member Shelby has said, and said back in 2009, I think each of these institutions, perhaps the GAO, need to be called upon to do an in-depth, retrospective review.

I think as the other Senator noted, people in America are asking, Where are our watchdogs here?

I think we have shortchanged the SEC for the last two decades on funding.