I think it really undermines the rule of law if this is not in any way accessible to the average person.

I think you recommended between 8,000 and 12,000.

To see millions of dollars being spent in maintenance fees for empty buildings, particularly at a time when we are told we have to cut back on key services, it is something that none of us should be satisfied with.

We need to start streamlining some of this bureaucracy and red tape. I think it is paralyzing us as a country in more ways than one.

Thank you for holding this hearing, and thank you for your determined pursuit of inefficiencies and waste in government.

We have a responsibility as elected officials to serve the interests of the people who elected us and who pay the bills for this government.

to have a dictatorship like that so close to our country, it is just a very sad thing that it has happened after all of these years.

I think Cuba has a chance to really do well if it embraced democracy, if it embraced human rights, if it embraced free-market economics and turned its page on, you know, this 50 years of repressive rule.

A reconciliation between Fatah and Hamas represents the death now of the peace process such that such a process exists.