ranking member of the intelligence committee and introduced legislation last month to permanently ban the pentagon from recooping the money. thank you for joining us. this made national headlines not terribly long ago. i think some got lost, but it is incredit that believe you have these people who reenlisted. they were given bonus money. it was an error, but then we're told through no fault of their own, they would need to pay this money back which was a hardship on many of them already. >> it really was, appalling for the pentagon to go after these soldiers. they did their end of the bargain, they were offered these incentives, they went off to afghanistan and iraq, they served with valor and for the pentagon to claw these bonuses back i think was a terrible injustice. and i'm glad we passed language in the defense bill to rectify this and basically tell the pentagon back off, you're not going after these soldiers. and any who have paid the bonuses back will be reimbursed. now there were a small number of people who were actually involved in a fraud here, and