Our job on this committee is to defend our democracy and our basic institutions, to protect our rights as Americans.
The bottom line here is that expanded unemployment insurance... allowed millions of people to fill in financial gaps.
I have never seen more financial fraud and abuse of this system than I saw in the previous administration under Donald Trump.
Let me say that, again, these programs saved lives.
The traditional language of waste, fraud, and abuse does not quite capture the confidence games in organized criminal artifices.
Our committee's purpose is to ensure that government is effectively delivering on its promises to the American people.
In March 2021, we exposed how the Trump administration's reckless mismanagement of small business relief programs led to nearly $84 billion ...
I was hopeful for an opportunity to consider together how we can identify schemes of fraud and self-enrichment.
We have to keep building on the success.
Governor Moore... has deemed addressing health issues as a core priority of his administration.
I am proud that we included those provisions in the CARES Act precisely to ferret out fraud, to try to prevent the waste and abuse.
Thanks very much, Mr. Chairman. And congratulations on taking up the leadership of this subcommittee.
I want to thank your agencies for their work to combat the mental health and behavioral health crises that we see.
Let us live up to the legacy of this committee. Let us show the American people that we hear them and we are fighting for them.
I am glad that we are, indeed, going to begin on COVID-19 relief and some abuses that have taken place under that program.
the only problem with the statement you just made is that it does create a change in introducing asymmetry into the rules.
Our job is to make government and America serve not as an opportunity for greed and self-enrichment, not as a violator of the rights and lib...
What we need to proceed and succeed in this committee is common sense, to use our five senses and our reason in order to make sure that we a...
