05/11/2009
https://www.congress.gov...
"Mr. Chairman, I join you in welcoming Ambassador Patterson and our second panel of distinguished nominees."
"I appreciated your expression of strong support for the Cardin-Lugar amendment to the Dodd-Frank bill which required transparency of extractive industries payments to governments."
"Surely there are tens of billions of dollars out there, albeit acquired in a strange way by the former government, but regardless this ought to be Egyptian money."
"We must never forget to invest in our future."