mr. runyan. at this time, unless there's any further question, we shall, again, thank the witnesses for being here. thank you for making a difference. again, arlington, the shrine of our country, the respect that we have for service members, military families, veterans, this is so important. and i would like now to proceed to mr. wittman. >> thank you, mr. chairman. i would also like to thank the witnesses. i think there are a couple of things here that all of us on the committee would like to know today. i think mr. cooper brings up a great point about accountability and about past actions, current investigations. i think all of us feel like sufficient amount of time has passed where those investigations should have reached their conclusion. there should be findings, and there should be actions. so i think -- i know that our committee would expect from you, general vangjel, and from you, ms. condon, some indication about where that is. may notur dect jury diction. i realize it's probably direct

mr. runyan says when he talked about cutting taxes 20%. be down the tubes even faster than it is going. thank you very much. host: we had an event yesterday with a responsible budget and they took a look at all the candidates' proposals on tax rates. "the wall street journal" the committee said that mr. romney's tax plan revealed on wednesday would neither expensed nor shrink the deficit this is howard in charleston, west virginia, independent. go ahead story that we lost power. let's hear from dave in cincinnati on our republican line. caller: my feeling is that whatever direction we need to go with corporate taxes, we need to make the u.s. competitive with the rest of the world. so we can bring in companies. we don't want to penalize our companies. we want to try to work it out so the u.s. companies will be incentivized to bring things back. whichever direction after go to do that. i am not an economist but i feel we need to get business back. that way, all the lower taxes will be paid for because we will have more people working to pay