Well, I have no doubt your work has saved a lot of young people already.

there is a lot of skepticism about the ability to open up those markets, and we look forward to working with you on it.

thanks for being with us today, and thanks for your willingness to serve.

What we do not want to see happen is for us to do the typical cut-your-nose-off-to-spite-your-face effort where, in essence, an industry moves from a country, like Bangladesh, that needs jobs.

There is a responsibility there amongst the Government of Bangladesh to make sure they take care of their own citizens.

I would urge you to embrace, I think, what has been a pretty strong consensus here, and I think throughout the country, on the maximum protection possible.

I have to say, as well, for the work you have done to deal with a set of economic circumstances that we have rarely faced in American history.

Mr. Chairman, thank you. Vice Chair Klobuchar, thank you for making this opportunity available to us.

The issue is tax reform.

I am one of them. In fact, for a couple of years, I was probably one of the leading critics.

I think that this is really front and center, not only the Supreme Court justices, but the quality of the process in general.

I think there is a larger question that a lot of Americans are angry about or struggling with or perplexed by, and that is sometimes the sense that people in Washington do not get it.

I want to thank the ranking member for the opportunity, and I want to thank both the ranking member and the chairman for calling this hearing.

The 2014 Presidential election presents an opportunity for the Afghan Government to demonstrate its ability to conduct a peaceful democratic transition of political power.

There is a lot of attention, first, on the drawdown of troops.

any government agency would use searches of politically charged terms to single out groups for selective review is truly offensive to our concept of democracy.

I would hope that the IRS at this point, when you have nine recommendations that the administration says are going to be implemented, that those recommendations be implemented expeditiously.

Without legitimate elections next year, the fabric of the constitution will be torn.

It has been for some time and it will be for a while.

women's participation in the election and obviously well beyond the election is critically important

I wish there was more of a sense of, frankly, outrage or at least more contrition being demonstrated.

Are we going to do something to try to counterbalance their vote by trying to push forward a leader who will truly not be an American puppet?

I think this reconciliation process needs urgently--and it ought to be U.S. Government policy urgently--to expand this reconciliation process to include those constituencies.

Many Afghans continue to question our commitment to their democracy.

If we are going to be able to follow through on the commitments that we have made... this is going to be an important factor.