That's right, about one out of every ten dollars paid out of Medicare was paid in error. That is unacceptable.
the time for addressing it is long past due.
I hope that we will not just have a conversation about this. I hope we will do it.
The Pentagon should not get a free pass when it comes to improper payments just because some members of Congress find it...
There is not one dime's worth of improper payments up here that is cited by the Department of Defense.
I largely cited it in my opening statement because of the good work that you all did back in 2014.
When it comes to combating actual fraud, the Government Accountability Office and the National Taxpayer Advocate have sa...
We look at the challenge of improper payments as an opportunity to make our tax system and spending programs work better...
We need to beef up tax enforcement, and particularly, given your testimony, we need to beef it up so that it targets tho...
I really want to defer to the expertise of Senator Carper, who has led this committee on this question of rooting out he...
Setting standards for paid tax preparers has multiple benefits. Not only will it crack down on fraud, it is going to hel...
Let me begin by saying that nobody on this side of the aisle is ever going to back down from the challenge of fixing imp...
What Senator Coats and I have sought to do all these years... is to try to clean out a lot of that junk.
The Congress has to do everything it possibly can to eliminate both fraud and improper payments.
I also feel that your recommendation there at page 43, with respect to tax enforcement, is important.
We have been working on improper payments, Tom Coburn and I, for, gosh, almost a dozen years.
the tax code is an insanely complicated, byzantine mess.
I really feel there is a double standard with respect to enforcement in America.
