mr. kissell's amendment, the clerk please distribute the amendment. without objection, reading of the amendment will be dispensed with. chair now recognizes the gentleman to offer and explain his amendment. >> mr. chairman, this amendment is very close to me, as i am co-chair of the tech tile caucus here and also spent 27 years in textiles before coming up here. this is a simple situation when we went into afghanistan, the uniforms that was being made for the afghan police and afghan armies was american made. as it should be by the very amendment. somewhere recently someone as made a decision to outsource this to another country, we cannot find out who made that decision, why they made that decision. we have heard some things, afghan first. this is not about readiness, this is not about getting the materials there in time. the cut operation is in afghanistan. that is no problem, we have heard the military has flexibility, but when you make bad decisions, it's our job for oversight. we have scores if not hundreds of americans that are working, paying th