Every one of those other strategies would have resulted in an awful lot of American combat casualties.

Here we are 14 years later and Mr. Mills is testifying that none of the radios worked underground.

If I'm looking at page 3 of your interim report, the answer seems to be no.

This is a management issue. This is about management, not about the rank and file.

I look forward to fully examining why there was a delay in evacuating passengers.

Yes. But obviously the system did not work properly and one life was lost and we could have lost more.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. And thanks to you and Mr. Meadows for so graciously agreeing to have this hearing.

Metro is America's subway and this has national implications.

We were going to have a uniform set of standards so we could all speak to one another.

We are offer our deepest condolences to her family and our sincere gratitude to the brave first responders.

I have particular concerns over safety culture.

This is something that has bothered me for a long time.

Despite the horrific brutality of ISIS and its devastating attacks in Syria and Iraq and against American and other Western citizens, it is still the ruthless Assad regime that remains the biggest threat to the Syrian people.

There is this assumption in large chunks of the world that we are somehow omnipotent and we most certainly are not.

I, myself, have called the Secret Service on occasion to ask them to investigate a potential threat against a public official, including the President of the United States.

the paramount mission is protecting the President and other high-ranking national officials and allows no tolerance for error.

The FITARA bill, also known as Issa-Connolly, our preferred name, does address all three things and mandates status and a consolidation.

And there are real potential savings if we can make this work.

So it is absolutely critical to rectifying this problem that we have identified.

It is very important. I mean, that is a critical.

For me, you have been a model of oversight commitment to the work in both countries at personal risk and peril to yourself.

I commend this committee for your recent legislation. I look forward to working with you to make sure it is successfully implemented.

I actually really look forward to this hearing every year.

I yield myself such time as I may consume. Mr. Chairman, I rise today to urge my colleagues to support this simple, clear amendment to H.R. 50. This amendment seeks to establish a performance-based sunset mechanism stipulating that, in the…

In summary, Mr. Chairman, I think this is a commonsense amendment. I think it sets a metric that I would hope my friends on the other side of the aisle would actually embrace so that we can see whether a new piece of legislation is, in…