John Mica

We spent over $100 billion, the chairman said, $100 billion in 10 years, is that about right, Mr. Sampler, in U.S. money in AID?

People have to be held accountable. I think we have to stop pouring money into this black hole.

That drives me bananas.

I think you had said that, then I asked you again, was that correct. In fact, later on I called your office to make sure I wasn't misquoting you. Because I was just stunned by that.

I think it should be renamed Operation Fearless and Brainless from what we have heard here today.

IRS and most bureaucracies have no problem spending lots of money doing things we don't need.

If it were me, I would wrap this case up and move on, to be frank.

But you heard one of the principal IRS officials who was involved with Lois Lerner, who came to the chair where you are sitting now and took the Fifth Amendment. She is at the heart of most of this activity.

At the very heart of this matter is a basic fact that IRS appears to have been used prior to the election, the presidential election, in a concerted effort to close down or keep at bay conservative organizations by targeting them.

We aren't interested in it. We are interested specifically in Lois Lerner and others to find out who did what.

I think we are playing a bunch of games, but I am telling you those truckers just got me by the collar and said the technology is there, but we are in another era.

Maybe for the record--don't mean to interrupt, but maybe for the record, just to substantiate what you are saying, is how many more you have processed.

I just wanted to substantiate what is going on, and what our intent was.

I think that is horrible, terrible, bad.

Try not to screw my State this time, too, like they did in the first round.

We had--in fact, we entered in the record some commentary from some folks that said that's being considered.

You're still scratching your head?

I've never seen anything so disgusting as the mess, the misplacement, the mistreatment, the use of human remains of our servicemen and women as what I've learned took place at Arlington.

I just do not trust the Afghanis. When I was there, I'm telling you, they're--they're--everything they do I would question, right from the president, who I think is corrupt, and the money that we're pouring down that rat hole and then…

The risk assessment for the mission profile overall as a commander's risk assessment was a high risk mission, yes, sir.

This is the largest loss in Afghanistan, sir, that's correct.

Well, we are here because one of the most horrible and failure of some of the systems that we have in place to protect us failed and a lot of people died.

We need some mechanism to review people periodically as they take on new roles.

The problem is it is sort of garbage in, garbage out, and we have flaws in the system.

Many in the commercial space industry found it much more advantageous to operate in other countries where, in fact, instead of over-regulating and essentially taxing the commercial space industry, they subsidized it.