Gerry Connolly actually said...

"The question is, is it effective? Are we losing this battle or are we winning it, and what are the metrics that get us to winning?"

"We have got to be bottom line focused here, including the State Department. Are we making progress or are we falling behind?"

"But for years we weren't catching the fact that people were dumping."

"When Ronald Reagan was going to Iceland, he invoked a Russian expression, dovre noprovre; trust, but verify. It looks to me, in this case, that OPM fell down on the job of the verify piece."