There has been 11 years and 1.5 billion spent on an IT system for the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, and you're still using a paper system there.

we are not badgering you because we want to badger you; we are talking to you because the American people are upset about this.

This stuff just simply doesn't pass the smell test on a lot of areas.

to me, that is being grossly negligent with classified information, and I should--and that is a violation of 793(f).

I think you all have behaved badly and have invited government regulation.

So the power of the purse is basically gone.

One of the things I hear consistently from my constituents in Texas is, all you guys in Congress do is go yell and scream and beat on your chest.

When we find wrongdoing in government, Congress has a limited number of remedies.

the buck has got to stop somewhere.

I am going to reserve the right to remain skeptical of that.

This line of questioning isn't about email. It's about national security and, to borrow Director Comey's words, someone at the top level of our government being extremely careless with classified information.