Thomas A. Garrett: “Our role is oversight and the responsible stewardship and allocation of tax dollars taken from working Americans.”

The Voice of America, when properly levied, has been instrumental to the freedom of literally hundreds of millions of people and that shouldn't be underestimated.

We have an ability--and a responsibility... to be a check on executive power by virtue of speaking when we are in disagreement.

I would submit that the North Korean regime from 1950 has a history of making a promise and then breaking a promise.

I have implored my peers and superiors on this committee to remember the words of Arthur Vandenberg, that politics stop at the water's edge.