So you are saying currently the standard is 51 percent ownership, but 100 percent control.

So many of these veterans that are coming home in Oklahoma are coming home to find employers eager to be able to hire them because of their leadership and their great work ethic.

We need to verify with our trust.

Because the requirement is if you are a service-disabled veteran company, you have to have 51 percent ownership management, be in a CEO or president type position.

Thank you for the work that you are doing and not only for this hearing, but the work you are doing all the time, when the cameras are off as well.

you saved us as a Nation, you saved freedom for what is happening; come home and save our economy.

What we have determined is because of, as we evaluated failures to be verified, we have tried to go out with these simple little briefs.

Let's find the things that are in the way and let's try to figure out how do we start resolving this.

companies in Oklahoma love hiring veterans because they don't know when to quit.

There was that issue before; now people have gotten the message you are not going to be verified, you are going to be investigated if you come in and say you are a vet when you are not.

So far, this year, we are at about 48 percent denials or more than half now we are verifying.

If we are dealing with a number of 76 percent, that is a rather high percentage of potential failure in it.

So this is the self-certify. So if I go to HHS and say I am a service-disabled veteran and I own this company and I want to bid for this contract, they just check I am a service-disabled veteran, but there is no one checking with the VA…

Seventy-six percent was the number I think that was floated of potential fraud basically that is out there of service-disabled veterans that they are not complete.

They shall return not only eager to create a better world, what is far more important, they shall come back prepared to create that world.

Our newest national unemployment numbers are in, 8.3 percent. It's progress, but it's 37 months above 8 percent. It makes me grateful again to be from Oklahoma. We have the 10th lowest unemployment rate in the country at around 6 percent…

One of the things about being a freshman in this body is walking in and trying to learn the numbers game. On the Budget Committee, there are a million different variations to the numbers, a million different options with the numbers. And…

I know you also did not want to see the death of Brian Terry. None of us did.

That would be the definition of unsustainable, that we suddenly cannot get the money at the rate that we need it for in other countries.

It is one thing to talk about it after the fact. It is another thing to try to fix it so it doesn't become such a bureaucratic maze that nothing happens.

The last thing I want to say to the Terry family... is that there is some way to be able to say this is never going to occur again.

I appreciate your open communication that you have started: more press conferences, more communication.

There is a limited amount of liquid capital at any moment worldwide, and every country is competing for it at a higher rate.

I already prefaced this by saying I do not anticipate this--I am making a statement. I do not expect the Attorney General to respond to this.

But that is consistent with the FBI process, is that correct?