I thank you, Senator Mikulski, for your kind comments, but, more importantly, for your passion on this issue.
Child care is one of the most important decisions a parent will make when it comes to raising their children.
I applaud Senator Mikulski for her work on the Appropriations Committee to make this happen.
I'd also like to thank today's Ranking Member, Barbara Mikulski, for agreeing to partner with me once again.
We govern best when we can function bipartisanly.
If you will get your folks to get with us, we will work in a bipartisan way.
If we gave you that, you believe that we would be able to not only make a more focused approach on those that are fraudu...
I want to give them the tools coming out of Oversight and from GAO and the others to say here is how we define the argum...
I want to make sure that we are clear that I want you to focus and have your priority on fraud versus on what goes on a ...
Can you in the next 120 days get me an updated report on the trafficking?
But the bad actors, I want to make sure they go home and they go home for good.
And that is precisely why we are having this hearing because it shouldn't be a stigma that everybody is cheating the sys...
This will not be the last hearing then, and we will have you back.
let me tell you, it is harder to go after the recipient and it is very easy for you to make statements about recipients
How about you at USDA, Mr. Concannon? Can you get us that?
I think that would help, you know, especially as we are reviewing on our side, we know how the money is being spent and ...
I mean, if we put forth that any saving from fraud actually went to increase the benefits for some of the others that ar...
I do think it would be a deterrent to folks who don't want it traded because their picture is on it.
