But we also have a choice this year as to whether we put in the budget request--whether we adopt the budget requested by...
We need that watchdog.
We do not want them waiting in line 3 years.
When I joined the agency in 2007, I reversed the trend in declining program integrity work.
You made the allegation. There may be a flat-wrong conclusion.
I assume that is true around the country that you are trying to get these backlogs down.
Doesn't that get to the heart of this issue?
I am not sure there is a definition of fraud that is different between you and the GAO.
A number of us signed a letter--it is a bipartisan letter--on this funding issue on the staffing levels.
That is not going to cut the mustard.
We have to put the resources where they should be going.
Fraud ought to be commonly defined or told to us that there is a difference on this.
I think it has been a very useful hearing.
no deal is better than a bad deal, and so we need to be opening our markets, but we need to make sure they are good deal...
we need to say it is happening and we need to do something about it
It cannot be that you just send some money and get a driver's license renewed without a physical exam.
We are now in the largest deficit in the history of the country.
We need to give the country a facelift.
