Because we hear all the time you can't fire a government employee. And certainly--I was on Foreign Affairs when Ms. Clinton said you can't fire anybody in the government.

I mean, these things just don't seem like common sense.

The reason I bring that up is there is a case right now where we have a guy--they went after the contractor.

I get the same feedback from the producers in our area, that the Department of Labor treats our producers like they are guilty and needed to be proven innocent.

I think we are seeing maybe the true nature of what the people in charge actually believe. They don't believe in a democracy.

We cannot have it both ways. Either we are for democracy or we are not, and we need to have clarity about that in this body.

a democracy, as Ben Franklin pointed out, is two wolves and a sheep deciding what to have for lunch. The sheep always loses.

I think we need to kind of refocus and do a paradigm shift on how we handle our foreign aid.

I would like to see us do more of that instead of trying to tell them how to run their country.

Mr. Chairman, in 2010, this body passed the Hiring Incentives to Restore Employment Act, the HIRE Act. Included in that measure was the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act, or FATCA. FATCA requires U.S. citizens living abroad to prepare tax…

Our credibility is gone. They don't know what we stand for.