I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will report the amendment. The Clerk read as follows: At the end of the bill (before the short title) add the following: Sec. __. None of funds made available by this Act may be…

This is a simple amendment which will ensure the Department of Homeland Security is being accountable to Congress--and more importantly, the American people. Earlier this year, it was reported that DHS solicited bids for some 1.1 billion…

It's hard to go back and talk to the people back home who have lost their homes, who have lost their jobs and with any clear conscience at all justify any part of this behavior.

Can you give us assurances here today that targeting outside of the 501(c)(4)s, did not happen with regards to auditing, with regards to penalty waivers, with regards to fees?

And quite frankly, I find your apology today hollow. It's not enough. You know, an honorable man would do more than that.

I appreciate the chairman for yielding and I appreciate his comments. This amendment would not stop the current bids that are out there, the current process that we have in place. It would just stop additional processes. We are looking at…

Thank you, Chairman Davis, and thank you, General Walsh, for being here.

We needed to put an emphasis to strengthen, I guess, the priority within the State Department where human rights gets the same, I guess, influence that the trade side of the State Department gets.

We cannot move forward with a GSP status as long as these issues are unsettled and Vietnam is unwilling to seriously address human rights issues.

Should that money be more spent on the encouragement of property rights and the formalization of this informal sector to once again grow?

I truly am impressed, not only with your ability to articulate the points but to get to the crux of the matter.

I hope my colleagues will join me in rejecting this misguided proposal.