We need to change the thinking that if only we give a program a couple more years and a couple more billion dollars the program will ultimat...
What we are trying to do is to improve our ability, when fraud occurs or when we just make overpayments, mistakes, to be able to go out and ...
That is not the kind of behavior that taxpayers expect, and that is not what they should get.
We try to work on prevention with respect to health care.
An ounce of prevention, as my grandmother used to say, 'Is worth a pound of cure.'
Now, more than ever we have to find the best value for our tax dollars, and I am amazed as I stay here longer as to how much we actually was...
We ended up with a balanced budget approach that worked on the defense side, defense spending, worked on domestic discretionary spending, wo...
One of the questions I often ask of witnesses, particularly when we see a real problem, $402 billion worth in cost overruns, what can we do ...
We have to do better than this. Otherwise, we will end up having $1.5 trillion deficits for as far as the eye can see. We cannot afford that...
Is the Joint Strike Fighter.
We actually pay the providers up front. Then we figure out it was wrong, and mistake, and then chase them down and try to get the money back...
When we have seen major weapon systems cost overruns rise from $42 billion in fiscal year 2000 to $402 billion in fiscal year 2010, we have ...
OK. Thank you.
Sometimes when we hold these oversight hearings, we focus on disappointing performance, bad actors, that sort of thing.
Who is John Young?
We need to change the culture from one of what I describe as spendthrift to a culture of thrift.
Fewer, yes.
Without such Federal regulations, we could experience another period of lawsuits, political warfare and public campaigns that would distract...
