Part of what we tried to do in the improper payments legislation that Senator McCain and I, Senator Collins and others, Senator Coburn, Sena...
That is why over a year ago, President Obama proposed and this Congress passed the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) to help put...
I have heard estimates for improper payments for Medicare and Medicaid combined on an annual basis, estimates that go up as high as $60 bill...
The other piece of the Recovery Act (RA) was direct Federal spending for projects to help rebuild our physical and economic infrastructure w...
First, make sure all Federal agencies, including Medicare, all parts of Medicare, Medicaid, are reporting improper payments.
Did you say this was an assignment or an undertaking that was deemed to be impossible by the intelligence community? Did you say that?
As I understand it, during this last year we stood down the recovery audit contracting activities in these five States and did a lessons lea...
But from my standpoint, my guiding principle is to make sure that HHS is as aggressive on the spectrum as they can be without crossing into ...
the leadership involvement and emphasis is so critical.
we are looking for--in the Legislative Branch, we are always looking for pay-fors
So I would still get more money than Senator McCain.
I want to make sure that the way we do the census then will be a good deal different than the way we have done it this year and 10 years ago...
The second piece is we want you to stop making them. We want to stop making them.
I was troubled by, Dr. Coburn, who sat here where Senator McCain sat for many years.
Insanity is described as doing the same thing over and over and over again expecting a different result and not getting it.
We had really troubling reports this year of the enumerators, the people actually going out and doing the counting, being harassed just tryi...
I often say right here in this hearing room, if it is not perfect, make it better; everything I do I know I can do better.
Nobody is as smart as everybody.
