John Yarmuth: “Only the federal government can deal with many of these problems.”

I thank the gentleman for yielding; and I do mean the gentleman. It has been an honor over these last 16 years to participate in this event. My record as a captain after the first 4 years was not very good; and, actually, John Tanner was…

We need to be much better at that.

We did not commit child abuse. That is an absurd statement. Forgive me, Speaker Gingrich.

Thank you, Mr. Malik, for your testimony.