Mr. Speaker, last week I traveled across my district listening to my neighbors, who cannot afford the cuts that will go into place under sequestration. At Harper College, school superintendents told me that sequestration will cut vital…

It bothers me that we are wasting this kind of money.

What are we doing to take care and ensure that we do a better job of safeguarding the taxpayers' dollars?

I feel like sometimes we overlook the importance that beneficiaries can play in fighting fraud.

Mr. Speaker, we are just days away from an $85 billion sequester that will result in arbitrary, devastating cuts to our Federal Government. Despite the looming deadline, this House has not debated any alternative to protect programs that…

OMB estimates that consolidating Federal data centers could save us between $3 and $5 billion.

I was thinking that the people in my district would really appreciate listening to this discussion.

I appreciate his decades of work to make Medicare, Medicaid, the programs our citizens rely on, more efficient.

We agree, we all agree that waste, fraud and abuse is a problem.

we want to and have been cutting the waste, fraud and abuse and we need to build on our successes

we agree, we all agree that waste, fraud and abuse is a problem

For almost a decade now, I have advocated to draw on the successes of the Adoption Incentives program in increasing adoptions.

I think it is a very important one as we attempt to improve the Adoption Incentives Act.

We want to and have been cutting the waste, fraud and abuse and we need to build on our successes.

The $716 billion that Democrats were able to save through Obamacare that reduced the cost of Medicare without cutting benefits.

the $716 billion that Democrats were able to save through Obamacare that reduced the cost of Medicare without cutting benefits

We don't think that that estimate was credible and we asked them to do another one.

We know from polling that most Americans have no idea what ``sequester'' means at all. In fact, one of our colleagues said that she was talking to a constituent who said, Yes, I am all for sequester. Let's sequester all the Members of…