We remain determined to protect this critical spending from waste, fraud, and mismanagement.
Preventing fraud in the execution of stimulus funding is a key element to the ultimate success of the Recovery Act.
Striking the right balance between speed and caution has been a challenging task.
the success of the pilot program, in our view, is also very important to striking the right balance, as Senator Collins ...
This mistake may cost taxpayers about $2.5 million and it could easily have been prevented.
It becomes difficult, and the problems are obvious as you try to measure this.
I think we need to more aggressively look at the internal controls in the Federal Government as well as at the State and...
It is essential to effectively achieving the objective of the President's March 4, 2009 memo to have the capacity and ab...
the acquisition workforce... is the number-one problem, over and over again.
I think you've brought forth a bill that will really make a difference.
My related concern is that we're putting an American face on the effort.
the United States is going to have to take a bigger role, that the United States is going to have to take a stronger lea...
it's imperative that we build up the Afghan army as quickly as possible so that the Afghans are taking a lead
One of the reasons that we are seeing some success in Iraq is not just the addition of more troops, but rather a change ...
That is the most powerful component in this bill, to create jobs.
That is the most powerful component in this bill to create jobs.
Some of these programs, while they're worthy of an increase in funding, simply do not belong in an economic stimulus bil...
If the bill comes back from the conference committee with a lot of wasteful spending reinserted or if it comes back in e...
