Robbing your customers is not a mistake. There is something deeper going wrong there.

It does cause me some level of disappointment that it took so long to get here.

I share Ms. Speier's frustration that now we are dragging in messaging issues and bringing them into this debate.

I want to thank all the witnesses for helping us out here with this tough issue.

It is a disgrace that this is happening and that we are allowing an individual with these obvious conflicts to continue to--to be involved as a special envoy when his own personal interests are obviously overriding the national security…

I hold you and your staff in the highest regard in terms of the work that you do on our behalf.

But I did want to say that oftentimes, Ms. Brannon, this committee especially relies on CRS for its work.

So I just want to ask you to take back to your superiors the appreciation of this committee on both sides of the aisle for the work that CRS does.

I want to, first of all, thank the witnesses for your help on this. It's a tough issue.

In fact, there's actually eight studies that we rely upon, and some of these are keenly important to the work that we do.

Not being able to issue the reports, I think, is a real shame.