It strikes me that as you look at the GAO recommendations, the lessons learned from Iraq, none were taken into account as this transitioned to Afghanistan.

How do we make sure that you have what you need, Mr. Sopko, to properly conduct oversight and to make sure that the Inspector General's Office has the teeth that it needs to get us information that we need to ensure that we are doing our…

In your oral testimony, you testified that TFBSO did not account for costs 'on a project-by-project basis.'

Were any TFBSO projects in Afghanistan transitioned to USAID or any other U.S. government entity? If not, why not?

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.

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…

We are incentivizing hostage-taking.

So did we get any deliverable contracts of international businesses there because we spent $150 million on villas versus having them stay on base?

I think that's a totally inadequate response.

Is Mr. Sopko right when he said, using the gas station as an example, that there was no feasibility study?

Please provide a list of all TFBSO contracts and all available details on how all $638 million was disbursed.

I find it appalling that anyone would object to that legislation.