We will never know what they were doing at that point in history and whether or not something bad was about to happen inside the lab.

We are here today to discuss a very serious problem, one that the Biden administration and the previously Democratic-controlled Congress have avoided talking about for the last 2 years.

We all have a daunting task ahead protecting real American taxpayer dollars, not Monopoly money.

My Republican colleagues and I understand our constituents back home have sent us to Washington to protect their hard-earned American taxpayer dollars.

going forward, you are--what you are saying is you think that Congress should put ample amounts for the inspector general's offices into any significant spending increase.

Over the past 2 years, your Federal Government has been spending taxpayers' dollars like it was Monopoly money.

I hope, as you are asking those questions, you will ask if they have safeguards to make sure that we don't end up with another Solyndra problem.

This unrestrained spending must end.

So they are dealing with what you all identified previously as some potential ethical problems.

Do you think this Committee should subpoena them to testify?

It is on there, right.