Jim Jordan

You know this. There is a much stronger likelihood based on what you are doing than what I just said here.

The question that the Administration and we in Congress need to address is whether there are any improvements that can be made going forward to facilitate interagency information sharing.

The terror threat has not diminished, but that it is ever present and evolving.

I am also deeply concerned about a pattern I see emerging at the Department under your leadership in which conclusions reached by career attorneys after thorough investigation are overruled by Administration appointees for political…

The American people deserve no less.

You have repeatedly asked for additional security personnel, and it was denied, correct?

I find it stunning that 4-1/2 months after the attack Secretary Clinton still has the gall to say, "It wasn't us, it was them."

Mr. Chairman, here is a guy with 22 years of outstanding service to our country, 22 years, outstanding service, praised by everybody who counts--the President, the Secretary, everyone above him. And yet now they're obstructing--because he…

The declination statement with the reference to Magner was put in there even though Mr. Perez said he didn't want it in there.

The manner of conduct of this hearing. Totally unfair.

The travesty is Mr. Newell was supposed to testify a week ago in a Senate committee and he was denied his chance.

The travesty is families in St. Paul are not getting the kind of support they need.

I would say Mr. Perez got on the phone and started talking to the folks in St. Paul.

What changed their mind? What event took place between November 2011 and the February 2012 letter?

They know what you know. They know St. Paul ain't doing the job.

To now say that, oh, you know what, the guys who wear the uniform and law enforcement people across this Country aren't going to get as much training hours because oh, and blame it on sequester, and the timing of this news story to happen…

This gets back to where I was an hour and a half or two hours ago, the credibility of the Department of Homeland Security.

You have a credibility problem. Plain and simple.

I think frankly, the Department of Homeland Security has a credibility problem.

Don't you order in a five-year kind of a ceiling contract approach?

You have to have some idea. Because as the chairman pointed out, Investors Business Daily, USA Today, Huffington Post, Associated Press, now, look, I am in politics.

Their absence does not absolve them of the responsibility to answer questions to the American people they have a right to know.

Not only in this situation with Fisker did taxpayers lose $200 million, but the fact that we have the program jeopardizes all those...

It has to be one or the other. It is either complete incompetence from the Department of Energy...

Okay, no political influence involved getting this loan, and yet you lost $200 million of taxpayer dollars...