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This is unbelievable, and unbearable, and it is a total lack of leadership throughout the Department and agency.

Don't tell me that you need more dollars, more resources. You heard Nancy Pelosi saying, we are at bone bare--you know, the cupboard is bare.

There are tens of millions of dollars, taxpayer dollars, that are being abused. They are being stolen from the American people.

Our solemn responsibility is to hold government accountable to taxpayers because taxpayers have a right to know what they get from their government.

Americans deserve an efficient, effective government that works for them.

We exist to secure two fundamental principles. First, Americans have a right to know that the money Washington takes from them is well spent.

Yes, that, and I suppose are people who, once they have learned they can earn a living in a certain way, they would like to continue earning a living that way, especially if it is very lucrative.

There is widespread agreement among Republicans and Democrats that cartels should be vigorously pursued and severely punished.

I think the thought of going to jail is a pretty powerful deterrent absent having other authority.

As I understand it, the Department does not currently have in place a mechanism whereby a company's own compliance program can be taken into account when discussing settlement for illegal cartel activity.

I do not necessarily hear you saying that there is a legitimate purpose for the practice. Do you think there is? Should it be abandoned altogether?

I suspect that this happens a fair amount because they want to obtain a larger fine.

Do you think the procedures you have in place are adequate to address that?

Do you think the extent to which you take it into account is adequate?

Cartels cost Americans many billions of dollars every single year.

Cartel activity has no redeeming value, no virtue.

It is terribly frustrating. And I don't understand the games that the legislative liaisons sometimes play.

And I think we need that. We have a bigger obligation for this Country to make sure we get it right, rather than we get it fast, and that is my deep concern.