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The public has a right to know what the government is doing and what they get from their hard-earned dollars.

Disparaging the workforce does not get you skilled workers.

Americans deserve an efficient, effective government that works for them.

We will work tirelessly in partnership with our citizen watchdogs to deliver the facts to the American people.

So in the legislation that the chairman was talking about, maybe one of the elements we could have is to toughen up reporting requirements by the agencies to you, maybe even toughen up your coordinating role so we actually at least have an…

I just want to thank you. This is our first hearing of this new subcommittee, and I think you have set a tone of collaboration, cooperation, and bipartisanship.

No, Mr. Chairman, I just want to thank you for the hearing. I think this has been very, very thoughtful.

In hindsight, we are awfully glad Seward's folly took place and that we banked this huge piece of land.

TARP has been a great success, so it is very difficult to answer that question.

But you made a very good point from my point of view which was that for 30 something years, we supported the Mubarak government.

I think it is very dangerous business, frankly, when we question the legitimacy or implicitly question the legitimacy of an election.

Well, what about Ms. Romero's criticism that you have yet to adopt clear criteria that all of us can then measure and see whether you are abiding by them reasonably or not?

The fact of the matter is Morsi won an election, whether it was 51 percent or 80 percent, he won.

Well, that is what you say, but here is one of the special masters of all special masters saying, well, first of all, there is conflicting statutory guidance here, and the special master has to try to navigate his or her way through this…

Count me skeptical on that question.

The emerging relationship that did not exist heretofore between the United States and India it seems to me is definitely in our mutual best interest.

I am very worried about that expression because presumably it means more than deterring pirates.

So unless we see a willingness on the part of the Morsi government to revisit the constitution, to reopen the process and change some of these very problematic provisions, I think that would be a very, very troubling indicator.

To me, the real question is can the Muslim Brotherhood evolve to some level of acceptable democratic governance.

I thank my friend from Maryland. The distinguished chairman of this committee says that we're entitled to our opinions, but not our own facts while he calls upon our friend from Florida, a former member of our committee, who cherry-picks…

An amendment by our colleague, Mr. Van Hollen from the Budget Committee, to replace sequestration was also rebuffed by the Rules Committee just last night on a partisan vote. To make matters worse, the House is about to go into recess…

I appreciate the comments we've just heard. The bill before us today is just the latest partisan jab at Federal employees who are on the front lines protecting and serving our constituents every day. {time} 1340 I remind my colleagues that…

One wants to know why President Obama won the reelection and why Mr. Romney lost.

I'm sure you're aware of the fact that there are some, even here in the Congress, who don't even go as far as you do, however, who still are denying the science and are denying there's a problem.