My father used to say that the work expands to fill the amount of time we allocate to do a particular job.

I want it to be aggressive.

I think it would be difficult given the current state of Federal procurement time frames.

Thanks very much.

If we do not have a timeline, if we do not have a date that we are trying to get something done... then these kinds of things just stretch out forever.

there is a huge upside there in reducing fraud.

It appears to me that roughly one out of every seven or eight dollars that is being spent in Medicare is being spent wastefully or fraudulently.

I am going to ask you to answer that for the record.

Good. Thank you.

Thank you.

All right. Thank you.

We do not need any more C-17s.

I do not always do this, but I want to do this today.

In fact, we are over capacity to the point that we had in dialogue with Senator McCain.

We look forward to working with you, not just with respect to providing cost-effective airlift but other ways to save money and to do so in a way that does not undermine our security of this country and our ability to defend itself.

I think it is one of the things that has led Secretary Gates, this Administration, and the last Administration to recommend to us that we go forward with the C-5 modernization.

Let me just interrupt for a moment. As I said earlier to the first panel, sometimes repetition is helpful.

Some members publicly took him to task for that statement and differed with him on that.