Should the Congress of the United States not read into that a resolve to end cooperation?

Your committee's annual work on the NDAA is a model of bipartisan inclusivity. We should strive to follow that more often in Congress.

In that capacity, I became well acquainted with the vital role a skilled and trained workforce plays in keeping not only Virginia, but also our Nation as a whole, competitive.

I would say it has been one of the great pleasures of being in the Senate, to have been able to get this legislation into place.

Thank you, Madam Chair. I know I should follow Senator Blunt's lead, but I just can't help myself.

I think we have huge potential here to make more things in America, and we need to have the workers that are there to do it.

I want to thank the Chair as well for her focus on this issue.

I believe, and I want to acknowledge that the great majority of the contractors who participated in this process since September 11, 2001, are not only reputable, but they have really done a very fine job.

It has my strongest support and I thank Senator McCaskill for her untiring efforts here in order to bring good governance into this body.

This is a particular problem in the State Department and the United States Agency for International Development (USAID).

I am here to basically express the strongest support possible for the movement of this legislation.

I would much prefer to focus on getting us out of Iraq.

We worked with them for months and they could not tell us where $32 billion had been spent in a specific way.

I think they did a really fine job.

We do not want contracts that exceed 3 years.

This notion that we would unilaterally disarm while other countries around the world are actually increasing their export financing system is just kind of beyond the pale.

This is not Democrat/Republican. This is common sense.

This isn't an opportunity for partisan exploitation. This is an opportunity for the Oversight and Government Reform Committee to look at an agency where something went dreadfully wrong.