An Idaho Congressman said he's "very disappointed" in the accounting of how U.S. funds are being spent on infrastructure in the war zone.

Republican Raul Labrador is among six lawmakers fresh off a trip to Afghanistan, Pakistan and Iraq to meet with those countries' leaders to see how U.S. money is being spent.

"We weren't getting straight answers as to where the money is going," Labrador said. "The main message we left them with is that we're in the middle of a financial crisis in the U.S. and they can't be wasting American money.

"We're looking for waste, fraud and abuse. We'll be digging deeply into how all the money is being spent back there."

Labrador, the lone freshman on the Oversight and Government Reform Committee who went on the trip, said Congressional hearings with inspector generals will be scheduled on dates to be announced to find answers.

"We'll find out," Labrador said. "Our job was to look at the contracting and how American taxpayers' money is being spent because we're spending billions each year to rebuild roads and schools. We're going to have some pretty tough hearings in Congress about this."

Labrador said it was not a surprise visit to the countries.

"Either they were unprepared for our visit - and they shouldn't have been - or they're not keeping track of American taxpayer money," he said. "We need to know how our money is being spent."

Labrador said the U.S. is spending roughly $120 billion in Afghanistan alone per year to prop up the military.

"We're spending a lot of money on this war effort," he said.

Labrador said the war situations are vastly different in Afghanistan and Iraq.

"It's more volatile in Afghanistan," Labrador said. "Even though there's concern about the future (in Iraq), they feel the structure is there to leave a strong country behind."

The U.S. will draw down troops in Iraq at the end of this year.

Labrador said a trip highlight for him was meeting and having dinner with Idaho National Guard soldiers in Iraq on the last day of the mission.

"They were very hopeful," Labrador said. "Many of them had been to Iraq before and it's different from the first time to now (with Iraq being more self-sufficient)."

Labrador said the delegation planned to go to Egypt, but that portion of the trip was cancelled.

"It's not a safe area," he said. "One of the ironies is that it's safer to be in Iraq than Egypt."