We should learn from our mistakes and, more importantly, Egyptians must learn from their mistakes.

For the time being, the Egyptian military's recent removal of President Morsi has replaced one autocratic government with another.

I condemn the violence used to break up opposition sit-ins last August and urge the military to refrain from using similar tactics in the future.

Freedom of the press remains stifled, the economy is rattled by instability and religious minorities don't feel safe in their own communities.

I think there are numerous benefits to this law, and I want to see the American people utilize this law, because I happen to think it is a good law.

Even if a program gets off to a rocky start, it does not mean that we need to jump to conclusions about its long-term success.

It is of no value, as a matter of fact, it is a negative value and of questionable ethical value I think if people only spend their time criticizing the glitches.

I hope that I can see these same colleagues starting to champion the Medicaid expansion in their home States.

It is too big of a program, it is too important to too many people not to do that.

Why did our Republican colleagues shut down the government? Why don't our Republican colleagues allow the United States to pay its bills? House Democrats want to open the government and have the country pay its bills. Senate Democrats want…

We need to send a message to the world that we take Hague compliance in returning abducted children back to the United States very seriously.

There are few crimes more heart wrenching than child abduction.

The purpose of the legislation before us today is to fill those gaps.

I want to thank other members who contributed as well. I want to single out Mr. Grayson for his positive contribution to the bill.

This backlog of funding and the amount of money left in the pipeline for Haiti is in the hundreds of millions of dollars, and I am concerned that the team in place cannot handle the oversight over these crucial funds.

the two biggest complaints we have on transparency is they don't audit government expenditures and income, and the other complaint is they don't prosecute people for public corruption.

In your report you said that USAID and State did not brief Congress adequately. What specifically should or could be done about this?

I have been focused on U.S. policy toward Haiti for many years, and I sincerely appreciate your willingness to bring this issue before the full committee.

The threshold question we need to ask today is not whether we are on track to rebuild Haiti to a pre-earthquake standard, but, rather, if we are helping to build Haiti back better.

The American people deserve better, and, more importantly, the Haitian people deserve better. So, yes, colleagues, this is a scandal.

the reason we don't give money directly to the Government of Haiti is because we don't have any assurances that it will be accounted for accurately.

The findings in the GAO report were alarming, and to make matters worse, Congress and specifically members of this committee were not consulted nor briefed over these serious deficiencies in our programming.

I call on President Martelly to find a quick constitutional resolution to this matter and hold elections as soon as practicable.

This committee dispatched a staff delegation to Haiti last month to dig deeper into these issues and to help us set the stage for this hearing.

How does USAID's reliance on contractors and NGOs impact the effectiveness of USAID in Haiti, in your opinion?