So if we had a congressional liaison that would work with these type of cases, to work with some of our other colleagues, to inform them and keep this in the forefront, is that something that would be useful?

I need you to be the diplomat. I need to be the jerk.

All right, so we are talking about $23 million there for the pilot, is that correct?

child abduction is really child abuse.

I understand some of your diplomatic issues that you have to deal with from trying to balance diplomacy at the same time as trying to make sure that we protect the rights of parents.

If you got paid based on the number of kids that came back from abroad, it would be every day you were saying, 'Well, how many people have come back?'

I am a little troubled when we start talking about international law and its attack on U.S. sovereignty.

We are serious. And even if it goes beyond the normal just waiting, Congress is serious about resolving this.

If we were to put forth a piece of legislation today that says Congress changed its mind because this is not a wise investment of hardworking American taxpayers' dollars, would you endorse that?

Thank you to the ranking member, Mr. Connolly, who has, over and over again, expressed a willingness to work in a bipartisan way to cut out waste, fraud, and abuse.

What I would tell my constituents, I would say TWIC is a valuable security tool.

My question is how in the world did you convince anybody that you could do this kind of production, when you didn't even produce 1 percent of that?