"If it is above your pay grade, that is kind of depressing."
"The point I want to make is really that we can get to a balanced budget."
"Section 257 B1 of the Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Act requires budget scorekeeping decisions to assume that funding for entitlements already is adequate to make all payments required by those laws."
"That includes collecting all the taxes. That means taking advantage of our energy resources."
"I think earlier Congresswomen Black asked about the new baseline being altered with CSR payments."
"Thank you very much. I yield back."
"Given that for the last 2 years Medicaid improper payments have exceeded $36 billion, does CMS inflate its funding request to include improper payments?"
"Well, that is an administrative issue ----"
"We need to look at it, and I am going to challenge all of you to look at this as if it were your own money because indeed it is."
"So, when someone files a fraudulent claim, they file it at the State level..."
"Today's hearing marks the continuation of the committee's close look at the rising problem of federal improper payments."