John McCain

Why would there be that disparity between 7.8 and 15.6 percent?

Well, very briefly, if I could try to put this in perspective, Mr. Blum, my information is that in 2009 CMS estimated $24.

The President's plan is talking about eliminating $500 billion in fraud, abuse, and waste, that I right now do not have a lot of confidence that we have the procedures in place to really significantly impact it.

Well, could I suggest, Mr. Chairman, that maybe 6 months from now we could get a report from the Government Accountability Office.

According to the HHS Inspector General, however, although MEDICs were given task orders to conduct compliance plan audits, they were not given the authorization to proceed.

Do you have confidence that now in the fifth year of operations we will get it right?

I apologize to the witnesses. As you know, we had a vote.

I say with great respect I understand that prevention is vital, but finding out whether the prevention has been carried out is----

Part D is currently in its fifth year of operations.

If it is not perfect, let us make it better.

Our courts and our criminal system cannot handle terrorism, let me tell you how wrong they are.

We would stand idly by and accept it if they were tortured as prisoners? Of course not.

Within the United States, Miranda warnings are required to be given prior to custodial interviews.

Torture is unacceptable and will not be part of the American response to the war on terror.

As Abraham Lincoln said, you can call a dog's tail a leg, but it is still a tail.

Could I just say, Mr. President, the American people care about what we did and how we did it.

Eight times you said that negotiations on health care reform would be conducted with the C-Span cameras. I'm glad more than a year later that they are here. Unfortunately this product was not produced in that fashion. It was produced…

Stewardship contracts are a crucial tool to the Forest Service to accomplish effective, quality forest restoration in partnership with industry.

I would point out that only 53 miles of the fence is complete, and the contract was for up to 2,000 miles of fencing.

Is this not the second failure of a virtual fence over the past 10 years, I think?

This border fence issue has been a waste of billions of dollars.

I asked the Chairman of this Committee if we could have a hearing about the border fence and the waste of billions of dollars.

Going forward, will those subsidiary corporations make it clear, in writing, on future proposals for DOD contracts that the subsidiary corporation is owned by Xe Services?

Mr. Roitz, did other Blackwater employees or independent contractors conducting training in Afghanistan receive CENTCOM approval to carry weapons for their own protection?

Mr. Roitz, what were or are your responsibilities at Blackwater/Xe Services?