Improper payments are a huge problem, and while they are being actually addressed, satisfactorily addressed in a number of areas, a big one that is still the elephant in the room is health care, Medicare especially.

If consumers know, number one, and number two, if they can make informed decisions among products that actually offer this kind of protection.

I am very interested in the security issues, some of them raised by Senator Markey so far as automobiles are concerned.

We are going to have to have a law on which to sue.

And notification is kind of a basic minimum common denominator of what all of us should favor.

And imposing the costs of a breach on the one responsible, the one who can do something about it, also seems pretty basic.

I think that one of the points that is most important for us and the American people to understand is how inextricably bound, as you've said... Afghanistan and Pakistan are in their futures, their pasts, and their fates come.

I want to thank you for that effort, thank the U.S. Armed Forces for their increased focus and attention to that issue.

I want to join in thanking you for this series of very thoughtful hearings, which have been, I think, a great advantage to us in drawing a perspective for the rest of the congressional session and the tasks that we have ahead.

In the right way means other than Russoboronexport, the Russian export agency that has sold us so many--not us, but the Afghans--so many helicopters with our money.

I am not satisfied because we have not got to it. So I mean, I think there is a lot more that can be done by both Afghanistan and Pakistan and the Taliban, quite frankly.

Afghan women have made tremendous gains following the collapse of the Taliban regime.

Would you agree that the primary source of those ingredients continues to be Pakistan, and that they have done less than they could and should to stop the flow of those bombmaking ingredients across the border?

The first day that President Ghani took office in his inauguration speech, he talked about bringing in the Taliban, you know, that you have to be part of this peace process.

Longer term, the success of Afghanistan as a country is really dependent on the political factors and the social and economic factors that are hopefully supported and promoted by the American presence there as well.

Salvaged parts, inferior or even counterfeit parts certainly raise safety concerns. And often, those kind of parts involved in this practice of steering. And that's why I have been concerned for years about it and why I think the…

We should thank those who have served in Afghanistan over and over, because this progress has been hard won, at a great cost.

The Afghans certainly knew this was going to be very tough.