In my opinion, this is how we should approach today's hearing: by working together in a bipartisan manner to ensure that oversight is rigoro...
Personally, I am most concerned that the Administration has not nominated anyone to serve as State Department IG.
Inspectors general are critical to ensuring that our government works effectively and efficiently on behalf of the American taxpayers.
The fact that President Bush had as many IG vacancies in 2004 as President Obama does today does not mean we should ignore the current vacan...
This issue is personal to me in that one of my absolute best friends in the world was a great, great, great singer/songwriter by the name of...
we continue to urge our European partners to uphold their responsibilities in the areas of defense, including the common pledge of 2-percent...
A 2-percent investment of GDP is an absolute commitment by the NATO allies. It is not being honored.
this issue of the 2-percent GDP commitment that is not being honored is something that has been talked about for a long time.
Nonsense. I am glad----
There has been a--what has happened here, I think there has been consensus around the fact that prop trading is out the door.
Why in this time when our constituents are saying the federal government takes too much out of our pockets and it wastes money that we don't...
You have gotten too unwieldy. You are into areas where you should not necessarily be.
It is our responsibility to come back and to exercise some oversight on that.
I think as you can hear from the questions that we are asking, it does appear that HHS is now too big to control.
How does stewardship of the taxpayer dollar figure in to the decisions...
How can you be so dismissive of that? I mean, does that not concern me?
Our constituents come to us and they let us know they are taxed too much, they are tired of it and they are frustrated with seeing the waste...
I would be interested to see what you found. I know what my experience was as a Tennessee State senator and how the program failed to live u...
