I understand that a change in law is needed to allow some of the Medicare recovery to be used for this sort of outreach.

There are encouraging signs.

I will strongly support sufficient funding for you to carry out your vital oversight duties.

Dodd-Frank, although I was not a Member of the Senate at the time that it was passed, I think, took critical strong steps in the right direction.

I think, more than anything, we have to ensure a collapse like this doesn't happen again.

We have to figure out how to save some money in this program.

I supported the Medicare Prescription Drug Program. I voted for it.

The biggest piece of our deficit... is health care costs.

if we are going to be serious on deficit reduction, it has to include Medicare, not in a thoughtless way, not in a way that savages older people or poor people, but in a way that actually saves some money.

Star city of the South?

Don't we have that in Medicaid? Don't we have that in most States in Medicaid?

I do believe further legislation may be needed to curb controlled substance abuse.

We do not have the money to be wasting, whether it is $31 million, $131 million, or $231 million.

What we have to do is to look for every bit of money that is just wasted.

However, we simply have to do a better job in overseeing the Medicare Prescription Drug Program.

The government cannot just do it all. We have to be a partner, but they have to be a partner as well.

the President actually seems to be lined up behind it now, and my hope is that we can before the end of this fiscal year actually do that or do something very close to that.

Where I grew up.