Personnel is the number one issue. We have such a broad swatch of responsibility.

I have always kept telling you, I want you out of my State of Utah. Just go away and we will all be happy.

We live in a dangerous, a chaotic and an unpredictable world.

We have made more progress in 8 months than we have made in 20 years.

I do not know how you fix that. I just think we have to make a change.

We are just asking for the process as it is outlined by regulations and by law to work, and right now it is not.

Genuinely good government oversight requires a committee commitment to expose mismanagement, waste, fraud, and abuse.

I do believe that.

So specifically, if there was a plus-up, the areas I would be looking at very quickly is, we are going to go through the NEPA process again.

You feel good about the improvement that's been made over the last 5 years on that front.

[The Taliban] are not taking territory or meeting any strategic goals that they set out for themselves initially. They are going to take a district and they are going to lose it. They are going to take another district center and lost it…

The mission in Afghanistan that we have, as stated in the 2001 Authorization for the Use of Military Force there, was, of course, to use force against all nations, organizations, and individuals deemed to have been involved in the…

I mean, all politics are local, and this is particularly true of this committee.

We believe that we have to have a much more aggressive approach to that than what we have seen so far.

There has been a supplemental draft EIS that has been here in D.C. for more than a year, which is far too long.

I know a little bit about national security, I think.

Senior administration officials, including the President himself, have said climate change is the greatest threat that we face.

We need to work even harder and do more on the government reform side of things.