Alan B. Mollohan: “The lack of wisdom is in paying off these companies to support investments of the Benxi steel facility in China in order…”

I commend the Administration for doing that, and doing it in a way that is very sensitive to the national security concerns.

An agency with no vision or leadership will slowly decay.

I'm pleased to discuss this matter with the gentleman. This issue was brought before the committee rather late, after we had marked up. The point was made on a bipartisan basis that the authorization for this program was not adequate. We…

in this body, anyone has a right and an opportunity, as the gentleman has taken advantage of, to raise whatever issue one wants. The gentleman raises an issue in the context of virtuousness and virtuosity. He raises a virtue issue here; he…