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So can't we agree, Chair Yellen, that this overregulation that we have seen in this economy for the past 7 or 8 years has been stifling growth and opportunity?

I happen to think, Chair Yellen, that we ought to do everything we can to grow this economy because that is just not fair and it is not right.

If you cut the State Department budget, you are going to have to buy me more ammunition.

My concern is that you are significantly cutting workforce training and research, both in the National Institutes of Health (NIH) but also particularly in the Department of Energy.

So is it your testimony that these changes in the rate of reimbursement for Medicaid will have no effect on elderly, children, disabled people who are now beneficiaries?

I think that is fair.

Providing IRS with additional money will eventually produce more revenue.

Silicon Valley will not deal with the Pentagon. The small and innovative companies just do not want to be bothered.

We have really got to have some kind of systematic review of how we do procurement.

Well, not to mention the fact that processing an electronic return is about a tenth as expensive as a paper return.

I am interested to note that your estimate on improper payments, 75 percent are in three areas: Medicare, Medicaid, and the EITC.

I would like your recommendation as to how we might further--not in detailed implementation, but is there some structural way that we can get at the problem of lack of implementation of your very good suggestions?

My experience is that unless someone has the responsibility for making these things happen----

$406 billion a year of undercollections, about $145 billion of improper payments, add those together, it is almost--well, it is slightly above this year's projected deficit.

We have got veterans in Maine that want and need care, and we have got a program ready to go.

We are, as you know, paying about twice per capita for health care as any other developed country in the world.

Because I think that is important, because that is a principle that drives a lot of the debate around here, and I think we ought to try to get to the data that underlies it.

I think it should be clear.