Our duty on the Oversight and Government Reform Committee is to protect these rights.

I can tell you as long as the people of Utah put me in this position, I will push the Department of Defense to do this.

I thank each of you and appreciate the written testimony.

I sent a request to Secretary Panetta's office asking that they send one person to provide us information and they sent us four.

We exist to secure two fundamental principles. First, Americans have the right to know that the money Washington takes from them is well spent.

I really do believe with the hundreds of billions of dollars allocated to the Department of Defense, if there was a will, the Department of Defense would find a way to do it.

I think it is vital to us to have the proper oversight within these departments.

But if they refuse to do their job, if they refuse to actually--and the White House is just going to sit here, giddy, with that silly little smirk, and laugh about it like we can't do anything about it, then we make no progress, and that…

We should err on the side of making sure that we are giving these contracts to those who truly deserve and should be awarded those.

I had asked you if you had spoken to President Obama, Secretary Clinton, or Secretary Napolitano.

It makes you stronger going into the general election. Not only the candidates themselves, but the organizations, the staff, the fundraising, all of that becomes very important.