but it is important that we go back and look at all this. >> time has expired. >> thank you. >> senator sidney. >> thank you, mr. chairman and secretary blinken for appearing before the committee today. i appreciate and share the frustration of my colleagues over the challenges of the evacuation, and over the situation of special immigrant visa applicants and the taliban's treatment of women and girls and other minorities, and i also agree with your assessment and that has been given by several others of that where we were when we got to the evacuation, was because of the failed republican and democratic administrations. starting with senator mccain, i and others in the senate tried to get more special immigrant visa applicants through the process so that they could leave afghanistan, leave the threat