Today's terror organizations are more evolved, thanks in no small part to better methods of funding and financing their dangerous brands of hate, extremism, and violence.

The NDAA is one way Congress can work to at least eliminate the glaring vulnerability of putting our troops at risk.

We must guarantee that any aircraft that transports our brave men and women in uniform is never turned into a weapon and our troops into helpless victims.

We can no longer ignore this obvious hole in our anti-terror measures. This Congress must act now to address the shortcoming.

It is my hope, Mr. Chairman, that we can come together to understand what the FDIC's involvement was in these practices and create a bipartisan solution to ensure that this never happens again.

However, extrajudicial punishment meted out arbitrarily runs counter to the American rule of law and, frankly, the United States Constitution.

While we can all agree that consumer protection is a noble and worthy task, the personal preferences of unelected bureaucrats should not, and must not, be the policy of the United States.

What procedures have you put in place internally to ensure that examiners are not pressuring regulated banks to deny accounts and access to industries of which they personally disapprove?

And, frankly, that is why I advocate for smart regulations.

But what concerns me more is that my constituents have come to expect this type of behavior from the Administration.

This week, it is the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development, whose own Inspector General found evidence that senior employees may have circumvented the hiring process to appoint politically connected lobbyists to…

Are we doing enough at Treasury, the United States, our intelligence agencies, to determine who the middlemen are that are purchasing oil at $30 a barrel?

What makes ISIS unique is their ability to self-finance their terror interests.

This mission to degrade and ultimately defeat ISIS requires a coordinated response between the Executive and the Legislative Branches.

I am not confident that the Philadelphia VA has identified the right fix.

The Philadelphia VA Regional Office is broken.

It is the blood of my fellow veterans that we are talking about here; the people who pay our salaries; they deserve better!

At the meeting, which I would describe as a pep rally, Scott Pluta twice described this committee's oversight efforts as 'political theater.'

It is a change in leadership, but there needs to be a complete change in culture.

People are desperately looking for work. They are not reflected in the numbers of the government that is supposed to care about that.

My constituents are not buying the 6.1 percent. It doesn't feel right. They know it is not right.

The American people need to know more about how the Department of Justice financially benefits from these settlements.

Our Nation's veterans deserve an apology.

I think you ought to be applauded for trying to change the system from within.

It takes a great amount of fortitude and courage to come to the committee to make the statements you have made.