"I want to make sure that every member of our military or our civilian workforce understands that they can fully come forward with any issue that they have or concern about not only how taxpayer dollars are spent but also how the business of the government is conducted in a way that they know that th..."
"I fully support what Senator McCaskill and Senator Shaheen have said, that our IGs deserve subpoena authority and full access to records, which they are not getting right now."
"I just want to make sure that that is in the record, because having certainly had the opportunity to know General Odierno, we know he is one of the finest generals to serve our Nation."
"I think it would be very important for us to have a financial audit, so that we can ensure that each of the dollars that were disbursed, how they were spent, we can account to taxpayers for that."
"Do you think that was a wise use of taxpayer dollars?"
"So did we get any deliverable contracts of international businesses there because we spent $150 million on villas versus having them stay on base?"
"Why could they have not stayed on base? Why was that decision made? Why is it justifiable for 20 percent of the money allocated for economic development for that purpose?"
"What can we say in terms of deliverables for the mission that is anything sustainable that we get to accomplish the purpose of economic development in Afghanistan?"
"Well, it just seems to me as a DOD task force, $150 million, this is very important question."
"Is Mr. Sopko right when he said, using the gas station as an example, that there was no feasibility study?"
"So did we keep metrics or anything like that for this task force?"