"Americans have a right to know that the money Washington takes from them is well spent."
"Americans have the right to know that the money Washington takes from them is well spent."
"It is essential that every area of Government spending is fully transparent and beneficial to the Nation."
"I agree with what you were saying on the additional unfunded mandates. I completely agree on that."
"Our duty on the Oversight and Government Reform Committee is to protect these rights."
"Our solemn responsibility is to hold Government accountable to taxpayers because taxpayers have a right to know what they get from their Government."
"On the transparency side, not only coming back to Congress to be able to denote that, but also we need to be able to get it out just to the general public."
"I completely agree on that."
"This has to be a very difficult day, and not a day that you had ever hoped to be testifying in front of a congressional hearing."
"But ATF did permit those knowingly, understanding they were headed toward the border, and that was well-known..."
"So if we're doing a grant for a certain project that denotes some research to something out there, at the end of it we can also say, this was allotted, here is how it was spent, and here's the final p..."