Political Quotes

“The gentleman's amendment requires the DOD to generate a report and provide all documentation to Congress on the decision to withdraw from Afghanistan, the attack at Abbey Gate, in coordination with State, provide the number and immigration status of those evacuated from Afghanistan, and U.S. support or interference with nongovernmental groups assisting with the evacuation. There is nothing particularly narrowly crafted about this. It is very broad. The larger problem, this is all information, as Mr. Crow indicated, that has been turned over repeatedly to multiple different commissions and multiple different entities. I do not doubt that the families still have questions. To the extent they have questions, we should try to answer them. Those questions are not going to be answered in the documentation that the gentleman is asking for, and I know this because these documents have already been turned over, already been made available; and as the gentleman just said, the families still have questions. I completely respect that. We should find ways to answer those questions. This amendment isn't going to do that. It is not going to answer those questions. It is simply asking for documentation that has already been provided in multiple forums. I will grant you that it depends on the forum, but we have got the inspector general. Mr. Crow went through the list of all the different people who have seen this.…”