Last Congress, I supported more than $155 billion worth of real spending cuts. If Democrats are interested in finding a more targeted approach to avoiding the sequester, I'm more than happy to offer my suggestions. We only have to cut…

Thank you very much. If you will please let this Committee know what we need to do to try to rectify that.

The public deserves to know and use of alias email accounts is obviously a way of trying to get away from Freedom of Information Act.

I appreciate our witnesses' willingness to work with us.

Well, the American hard-working taxpayers need all you guys to be very diligent.

These are serious concerns about serious amounts of taxpayer money that require this Committee's attention.

I know I don't always see eye to eye with my friends on the other side of the aisle, but I respect them and believe that we share the same goal regardless of which side of the room we sit in, and that is to serve our respective…

We were promised by the President that he would have the most transparent Administration in history, and it seems that he has redefined transparency to be obscurity.

I urge my colleagues - Republicans and Democrats alike--to take advantage of the opportunity this hearing presents.

we indicated that we were concerned that after the expenditures of nearly $15 billion, that there would be no appropriate means to maintain that information.

The President has stated that if he cannot get his radical environmental agenda pushed through Congress that he is going to go around Congress.

To use a trite phrase, the fox watching the henhouse is not appropriate and I hope you all look into that.

The American people--the hard-working taxpayers of America are counting on you to do so.

I believe that this is a serious challenge facing the Agency as it moves forward.

As Inspectors General, you all have the important responsibility of conducting and supervising audits and investigations; providing leadership; recommending policies; and preventing and detecting waste, fraud, and abuse and mismanagement…

this is a $15 billion tunnel to nowhere in the middle of Nevada.

At a time when we face the possibility of large scale arbitrary cuts, to both domestic and military programs, I believe that any charges of wasting taxpayer dollars, or using them to run an ineffective office, must be investigated.

If indeed Mr. Zinser or any Inspector General has allowed his office to be abused, or become ineffective, then we in Congress have the responsibility to bring that to light.

Good morning and welcome. This hearing, titled 'Operating Unmanned Aircraft Systems in the National Airspace System: Assessing Research and Development Efforts to Ensure Safety,' is the first for the 113th Congress's Subcommittee on…

The American public are just frightened, frankly, about the use of the UAS to possibly have invasions of their privacy and invasions of their civil rights.

I look forward to working with you all.

the American public are very fearful, concerned, and that is the reason that the news media has been focusing on this issue so long.

I would like to extend a warm welcome to our witnesses. I also want to welcome our returning members and our new Members, including the Subcommittee's Ranking Member, the distinguished gentleman from New York Mr. Maffei.

Certainly, this is of great concerns to Americans not only because of the safety just generally but also because if Dr. Humphreys and his students can spoof the GPS system, what could other nation-states or terrorist groups do also.

Today's hearing focuses on integrating unmanned aircraft systems, or UAS, into the national airspace.