"this is standard."
"this is not an unusual amount of time for an investigation like this."
"accusations that the department has prematurely closed its investigations are false."
"On the portion of the OCO request that provides provision for Syria, a few things stood out to me."
"one of our principal responsibilities here as Members of Congress and especially in this committee is to conduct rigorous oversight of defense programs and policies."
"I wasn't here then. I'm here now, and my focus is moving forward."
"these are the same folks who voted to cut funding to the State Department."
"That NSN number, there is a real backlog there for businesses trying to get those numbers."
"So I understand the tension between making sure our embassies are accessible to the host-nation citizens who want to do business with the United States, as well as to allow our embassy personnel to do..."
"I have small businesses in my district that are still struggling."
"some of those decisions may have been not necessarily based on the actual facts of how these men served."