I have deep, deep reservations about you being able to do the job that you're being asked to do.
I have deep concerns about that, ma'am.
I simply can't explain to my constituents some of the anecdotes that we have heard with regard to financial mismanagement.
What is critical is to have goals, resources, and accountability.
I am saying over a 10-year period. I have heard anywhere from $400 billion to maybe $800 billion over 10 years.
It is just inconceivable for me how DOD, being one of our largest, and you can see the amount of money we put into it.
$10 million, that is $3.6 billion a year. This has been going on for I don't know how long.
So you are basically thinking it might be more policy, deciding on what we think we need and what we don't need?
Let me just say this, that you know that with the financial challenges we are having right now, and we have our problems, too.
I am just asking when was the last time we had a really good audit for the entire DOD?
It is hard for me to understand how $10 million can go missing in cash.
I'd like to go into it in more depth with you, because I think in these budgetary-constrained times that we have, we should be looking at tr...
Basically, with rising costs, especially of Medicaid or Medicare Part D costs, they're estimated to rise about 9.7 percent.
To reduce the costs, just to lower the costs so we're able to provide to more people in need.
Overall, our country's infrastructure receives a D-minus grade from a national rating group.
I think this has been an amazing hearing.
We want to try to find a way to get everybody on the same page here, because this is too important for our country.
It appears to me that it's in the government's interest to do an infrastructure bank for one of two reasons, either to shift risk, or to acc...
