"I'd do away with this program. I'm like Mr. Good, I would do completely away with it, and I'll do everything in my power to do so."
"AmeriCorps has failed yet another audit. After holding numerous oversight hearings on the fiscal State of AmeriCorps it's time to admit that this is a failed experiment."
"How long are we going to ask taxpayers to prop up this broken agency?"
"if there is any plan to try to keep this program alive, ... you would at least want the money to go where it's supposed to go."
"I'm going to be delving into this a lot more on individual basis with both of you."
"So the taxpayers are paying for whatever they are it seems to me, so we've got rampant fraud and rampant misuse of funds, and it's always the taxpayers who are paying for it."
"So it seems to me there is a systemic problem here that's an abuse of taxpayer dollars all the way around."
"I frankly don't think the benefits are there for the amount of taxpayer dollars that we put into this program."
"You need action. So when you have programs that aren't working, again, it doesn't do any good to just review them and say they're not working."
"The Biden Administration has injected instability into the energy sector by canceling the Keystone XL pipeline and discouraging domestic exploration and new development."
"However, it is clear that this hearing is part of a Democrat-led disinformation campaign to distract from the Biden Administration's failed policies that are hurting average Americans."