Letter to The Honorable Jason Chaffetz, a Member of Congress from the State of Utah from Basic Research.

I believe that the 801(b) standard, what this bill is suggesting that we would move toward, would be the more fair opportunity for those to have this discussion.

To their credit, under the leadership of Chairman Sensenbrenner, Conyers and Smith, this Committee began the process of seeking to modernize and bring some order to aspects of our music licensing system that have been slow to adapt.

the focus of the discussion today will be legislation introduced by Congressman Jason Chaffetz, H.R. 6480, the 'Internet Radio Freedom Act.'

It was a terrorist attack on a U.S. asset in Libya and it was never exposed.

This is not an environment where posts should be directed to normalize operations and reduce security resources in accordance with artificial timelines.

I believe personally with more assets, more resources, just meeting the minimum standards, we could have and should have saved the life of Ambassador Stevens and the other people that were there.

We have a moral imperative to pursue this. We have four dead Americans.

The environment in Libya was fragile at best, and could degrade quickly.

I think one of the untold sad stories that we are going to look back here upon in Afghanistan years, decades from now is the waste, the fraud, the abuse, that we were exacerbating the problem, we were funneling money to the enemy, we were…

I just can't--I just fundamentally have trouble sending money directly to these governments without the accountability metrics in place.