the U.S. Government has a role here, too.

It makes eminent sense that you would go the route where it only costs you $1.50.

the 30-year projected deficit is $103 trillion.

I would point out that we have given the IRS a lot more responsibility in these things as well.

the real solution here is simplifying the Tax Code.

the duplication of different regulations imposed on research universities and just in general the overregulation.

this Committee has a tradition of working in a bipartisan fashion.

I think we are going to have a pretty good discussion with the Inspector General for Tax Administration.

I think Leader McConnell would be very open to--he is looking for bipartisan pieces of legislation.

I would love to work with Senator McCaskill and work with GAO.

What is unfortunate is, it seems like nobody is really paying attention to this.

So, we will work in a bipartisan fashion with your staff and different Senators.

I would much rather be talking about tax simplification--tax rationalization.

Having the U.S. on board signaling that it supports a political, as well as a military solution is extremely important.

Somebody is going to have to control the ground militarily.

So with that level of fragmentation, I mean, what role has diplomacy?

Who is going to be the countervailing force to, right now, Haftar and Egypt and UAE and Russia?

the U.S. was very hesitant to reinsert following the second withdrawal personnel into Libya, worried about the paralysis that might cause at home.

I think that was a tremendous diminishment of a potential message being sent to other countries we were working on.

It is in political disarray, and there are thousands of militias.

If you go into supporting Haftar wholeheartedly, you will have a civil war.

Should we be encouraging European allies to step up to the plate?

I am not interested in doing that. Most Americans are not interested in doing that.

When I was in Israel, talking to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, he told me that there are three problems with fencing: tunnels, tunnels, and tunnels.

We have seen the enemy, and it is us.