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Jason Chaffetz
@jasonchaffetz· Republican · UT· Apr 2, 2014

I don't think bringing people in to train them on nuclear sciences when they have no nuclear power plants is where we would start.

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Jason Chaffetz
@jasonchaffetz· Republican · UT· Apr 2, 2014

Why is the Administration proposing to lift a 30-year ban on Libyans coming to the US to train as nuclear scientists now?

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Jason Chaffetz
@jasonchaffetz· Republican · UT· Apr 2, 2014

I think it would be prudent to allow public comment and to allow the public notice, and then public comment and to better inform Congress of what you are trying to do.

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Jason Chaffetz
@jasonchaffetz· Republican · UT· Apr 2, 2014

How is this relationship 'normalized' when our Ambassador was murdered in Benghazi 18 months ago?

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Jason Chaffetz
@jasonchaffetz· Republican · UT· Apr 2, 2014

This place is falling apart, and we are over here trying to figure out how to get more Libyans into the United States to be trained on nuclear sciences.

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Mike Lee
@mikelee· Republican · UT· Apr 2, 2014

It takes education, it takes people on the ground doing enrollment.

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Mike Lee
@mikelee· Republican · UT· Apr 2, 2014

a storm of unprecedented ferocity is approaching.

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Mike Lee
@mikelee· Republican · UT· Apr 2, 2014

judges must cooperate with the government. That shows he has little regard for the separation of powers.

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Jason Chaffetz
@jasonchaffetz· Republican · UT· Apr 2, 2014

This is one of the most important responsibilities of Congress, is, in fact, going after waste, fraud and abuse.

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Jason Chaffetz
@jasonchaffetz· Republican · UT· Apr 2, 2014

We need to continue to do that and hold people accountable to go after the waste, fraud and abuse in this important area.

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Jason Chaffetz
@jasonchaffetz· Republican · UT· Apr 2, 2014

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.

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Jason Chaffetz
@jasonchaffetz· Republican · UT· Apr 2, 2014

But when you have 333 different recommendations and you only insist that they implement 24, I have a problem with that.

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Jason Chaffetz
@jasonchaffetz· Republican · UT· Apr 2, 2014

I do think it is important for Congress to understand and look back on what has worked well and what hasn't worked well.

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Jason Chaffetz
@jasonchaffetz· Republican · UT· Apr 2, 2014

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.

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Jason Chaffetz
@jasonchaffetz· Republican · UT· Apr 2, 2014

Oh, it is more like the Stone Age. Fred Flintstone is more progressive than a lot of places in Afghanistan.

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Jason Chaffetz
@jasonchaffetz· Republican · UT· Apr 2, 2014

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.

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