Tim Ryan: “You know what? If this was a sexual escapade there would be hearings all over the place. But this is about $9 billion in…”

“You know what? If this was a sexual escapade there would be hearings all over the place. But this is about $9 billion in taxpayers' dollars that is gone, and no hearings. No one is getting there. In fact, here comes the report. I don't even know what I just did with it. Here comes the report, the article about the $9 billion. Paul Bremer says and the Pentagon disputes the Inspector General's report. Not, we better find out what happened because we do not want it to happen again and we are the guardians of the public tax dollars. We have got to make sure what happened never happens again. {time} 1545 That is not what we get from this outfit. We get: It was not us. It wasn't me. I don't know. What did you say? I cannot hear you. And these guys say, Inspector General, watchdog groups, $9 billion unaccounted for. The Pentagon says, We disagree. Well, then, where is it? Show it to us. We are not wiretapping you. How do I know? How do I know? Because you told them? You are the same group that told me that the war was only going to cost the American taxpayer $50 billion and now we are up to $400 billion, and you said we would be greeted as liberators, and that never happened. And you said we would use the oil for reconstruction. That never happened, Mr. Speaker. Why should we believe anything that is coming out of this administration or the Republican Congress right now? It cannot be trusted.”