I made a living in soft diplomacy so I understand the benefits of soft diplomacy but I also understand when it doesn't work.

I once told a high ranking State Department official that our children could be returned in 1 year.

If the administration is not serious enough to take their bacon away then what are we all sitting around here talking about?

I am troubled by what I see is a manipulation for political purposes of the TIP Report.

Are you willing to have us review that when we are not in a public forum with just members of both the minority and the majority looking at those split memos?

So if your recommendation was only followed and not overruled, that is the way that I view it, being overruled, by people up the line, only out of 17 times you were overruled 14 times, would you say that that is indicative of people up the…

Obviously, in February, the GAO added the Federal IT management to the list of high-risk categories.

I am troubled by the trend that I see.

I can tell you that the gentleman from Virginia, Mr. Connolly, and I have had a number of conversations as it relates to FITARA.

Wendy Sherman, who I have a great deal of respect for, admire, weighed in on 11 countries; is that correct?

I was troubled to learn--I am one of those that was born a little bit earlier than what the chairman of the full committee had recommended, but I was real concerned to hear that we are still supporting COBOL and Fortran.

We want you to succeed. But the other thing that Mr. Connolly and I and Mr. Hurd and Ms. Kelly, we don't want egg on our face.