Ben Cardin actually said...

I'd like to know if--how familiar the three Assistant Secretaries are with this issue inside your departments, and what your thoughts are.

It's sometimes very difficult to get support to build up the internal capacity of a country.

I think there's an inherent conflict sometimes between how good the government is and how much the need is.

This amendment was successfully accepted into the Senate's version of the NDAA, but was unfortunately removed during the conference process.