I think you've made tremendous accomplishments.

I have been impressed in the brief time you have been serving as Secretary with your vigorous and engaged diplomacy.

I am very concerned about the sort of charm offensive the Iranians are leading in Africa.

I look forward to continuing to work with you to advocate for robust funding for PEPFAR.

I Was pleased with the support you've shown and the President's budget has shown in delivering on ARPA-E.

I was pleased that Senator Murkowski earlier in this hearing referenced something that I think holds real promise for a bipartisan path forward.

I think Chairman Wyden has led early positive, constructive conversations within this committee about how we might use a comparable vehicle or this vehicle for sustained funding and financing for the development of promising technologies.

In our roles as Governors, I do not know if that ever happened to you under your watch, but from time to time people were released, not often but infrequently, from prison in our State that should not have been released.

I especially want to applaud whoever figured out the idea of assigning to National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) the responsibility for doing the outreach to key stakeholders.

Can we make the borders more secure? Yes, we can.

Maybe as we do our top-to-bottom review of the Department we can actually figure out how to have a few less Committees and Subcommittees for you to report to.

I want to go back to a point raised by Senator McCain.

I believe they are significantly more secure.

I think a lot of them are user fee based, but we want to look very closely at those and work with our colleagues.

my heart aches for everyone who has been affected by this tragedy.

Thank you, Mr. Prendergast, for those particularly spirited and focused remarks and recommendations.

We need to use our leverage to promote transparency within Congo.

I very much look forward to working together to address these pressing and important issues in the very near future.