I fully support that letter and reason and rationale for the letter, and do not want the situation in Nevada to be exacerbated by moving the adjudication issues over to the State of Utah.
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I also hope I can rely on you to work with us to, and I hate the cliche, but think outside the box to come up with more creative answers to the situations with which we are dealing.
I feel remiss if I was not here for your public presentation and grilling.
Judges must cooperate with the government. That shows he has little regard for the separation of powers.
But the concern is, when we are $102 billion into it, and most of that is DOD, it is not USAID, we continue to pour money into this thing and we haven't tackled the most basic problem which I think is corruption.
I do think it is important for Congress to understand and look back on what has worked well and what hasn't worked well.
But when you have 333 different recommendations and you only insist that they implement 24, I have a problem with that.
Oh, it is more like the Stone Age. Fred Flintstone is more progressive than a lot of places in Afghanistan.
I don't want to get caught up on semantics, but I am just telling you, you have an incentive fund, it sounds like a bonus, it sounds like a slush fund, it sounds like a lot of very negative things.
One of the key concerns, one of my biggest concerns is that we have U.S. money flowing to the very terrorists that wish to do us harm.
We need to continue to do that and hold people accountable to go after the waste, fraud and abuse in this important area.
This is one of the most important responsibilities of Congress, is, in fact, going after waste, fraud and abuse.
I want you to find the list, get us that information.
It takes education, it takes people on the ground doing enrollment.
As a Member of Congress I have been there twice.
I think we have got to be more aggressive. We have got to come up with something that brings some relief to these folks.