Jeff Fortenberry: “I look forward to learning more about your audit work on the SNAP program and the Department's use of information…”

I told them what I knew and what I understood. They`ve accused me of lying to them and are charging me with this. We`re shocked. We`re stunned. I feel so personally betrayed. We thought we were trying to help.

No, other than again to thank you, Mr. Chairman, for your leadership. I think it has been a productive hearing to unpack this significant portion of America's public policy of both expenditures but also impact.

China's development strategy, frankly, is this: It is predatory lending, it is resource extraction, and it is payment to authoritarian regimes.

I believe this is inconsistent with sound diplomacy. It is a projection of our own ideological divisions on the poor throughout the world.