I take this confirmation seriously as a result, and I appreciate how seriously you have taken it and the answers you hav...
Thank you for your service to date to the people of the United States, and thank you for the task you are about to take ...
I am particularly passionate about State and local law enforcement.
I have not had anybody come to me requesting to be put in the category of being a SIFI.
I think they use a star rating system.
As a recovering Governor, I often think of States as good laboratories of democracy to test and perfect new ideas.
On the other hand, Medicare fee-for-service programs to allow beneficiaries to compare quality among hospitals and provi...
I want to talk a little bit about Medicare Advantage plans, if I could.
One of the things they do for us is, about every other year they come up with something called a high-risk list.
I do not know if anybody else on the panel would be interested in doing this, but what about the idea of convening a tel...
One of the things I heard from a couple of you today--I think we have heard from a couple of you today--is that there is...
Somebody needs to put on the hat of the taxpayers, because they have a stake in this as well.
we want to make sure that the improper payments that are being paid continue to be reduced.
I understand that a change in law is needed to allow some of the Medicare recovery to be used for this sort of outreach.
we need to help figure out how we could, each of us, do our jobs a little bit better.
So we may want to think about realigning the incentives just a little bit.
Dodd-Frank, although I was not a Member of the Senate at the time that it was passed, I think, took critical strong step...
I will strongly support sufficient funding for you to carry out your vital oversight duties.
