I thank the chairman for his kind words and for his leadership because we would not be here today without the great work of the chairman; the ranking member, Mr. Eliot Engel; and my good friend from Florida, Ted Deutch, who has dropped…

The RRB's disability benefits program is a crucial safety net for rail workers who are injured due to the demanding nature of the job.

I think all of us here, our objective is good government.

I would ask each one of you, what do you think?

So what's the fire? Well, the national approval rate for disability applications remains just as high as it was when the LIRR fraud scheme was bilking the RRB out of billions of dollars.

We're here really today to perform one of the committee's core function, and that is protecting the taxpayer dollars from waste and fraud.

By the time they were caught, the fraud ring resulted in the RRB awarding $1 billion worth of bogus disability claims.

Yet, according to the IG, it appears that only 5, get that, 5 of 70 recommendations have been fully implemented.

I am confused on what our objectives are, specifically with Syria.

I think that the balance of those three elements I see a lack of credibility within the region right now in terms of if we say something do we really mean it.

What I find very concerning is all of you are willing to get together to discuss your testimony before coming here to be honest and, yet, the American people expect just honesty and, yet, what we have is a coordinated effort to be a stone…

Five executive orders, over 10 codified laws that required Congress to act to remove the sanctions in some way, form or fashion from Iran.