I urge the Biden Administration to be open minded and provide technical support if requested.

If you fail to plan you plan to fail.

I have not seen an evacuation plan. If they had it I'd think they would have produced it to this committee.

Those aren't failures by the U.S. military and those who are wearing the uniform. It's the suits, not the boots, who are actually responsible for these types of failures and these collapses.

I was very vocal in 2021 that the withdrawal and the evacuation should have started earlier.

I have an independent obligation as a Member of Congress to uphold my views, right, and I'm not just going to rubber stamp anybody.

the Biden Administration was because they applied political optics over military strategy.

One of the reasons I ran for Congress is I got tired of people who sit here trying to make decisions that impact us as war fighters on the ground but, yet, they have no accountability, no understanding, and no actual on the ground…

There's an old adage if you fail to plan you plan to fail.

I hope that we can continue that tradition in pursuit of a relationship that is based on mutual respect for democracy, human rights, economic prosperity, and regional security.

I'm glad that President Petro has committed to fully implementing this agreement and the United States as Colombia's ally should support these efforts.

The President's withdrawal was a complete and utter catastrophe.

the President disregarded that--ignored that.

It was not driven by National Security. It was driven by politics.

Congressman Ronny Jackson called me and told me about a mother and three children that were trapped in Afghanistan.

If this could only be won diplomatically then there is no other conclusion than the withdrawal was a complete and total loss.

I will hold people accountable and we will on this committee ensure that something like this never, ever happens again in the United States of America.

the Biden Administration had thwarted our efforts on three different occasions to rescue Americans.