Let me just interrupt you again, if I may. Describe for us in terms that everybody could understand what a desk audit is.

It makes us all better, and I appreciate the ability to be able to participate in this hearing.

Our hope is it is going to be in the--if we end up taking a sidecar approach in terms of adding to the Senate-passed health care bill, one of the elements of that would be to require that the fraud be reported.

Do you need congressional authorization, do you need legislation to allow the recovery audit contractors to work in the Medicare Part D vineyards?

All right. So that means by the end of next calendar year?

Their strategy at CMS and the MEDICs was to use proactive data analysis to identify the problems and prevent them before they occurred.

But we are not making enough, as you know, and I feel and I think my colleagues feel there is a certain passion to want to step this up.

We are going to require them to, and then come back later on this year with some way to incentivize them.

I believe that the Federal Government has an obligation to work with States to identify what works for a particular facility rather than imposing strict mandates that might hurt, we will say, a company as a whole.

I also understand that there is still considerable debate over inherently safer technologies.

I want an up-or-down vote.

President Obama wrapped up the meeting today with a request and a warning as well. He asked all sides to search for common ground. But also warned that time is running short, before he starts to think about other measures to pass a bill.

Well, we all agree on that.

We all agree on.

Thank you, Mr. Kanjorski, the new dean. I know that is probably a hard title to accept now under these circumstances. It's interesting, I was listening to Mr. Larson speak, and I truly wish that every American had the opportunity to be in…

I appreciate the Administration's proposal to add $900 million to key aviation security programs.

This increased recommendation of $900 million certainly increases our defenses against attempts to attack us on airplanes.

Thanks for coming off the disabled list to be here with all of us today, and thank you also for your service.