I think these companies should have had plenty of time to wind down operations by now and shouldn't be assisting in Russia's war in Ukraine.

I just find this... that is just unacceptable.

Unfortunately, it hadn't ever happened.

I think we need to circle our wagons there.

So many of my Republican colleagues have been committed to protecting Americans who have been victims of this fraud.

In my home state of Ohio, it is estimated $1 billion may have been paid in fraudulent unemployment claims from March 2020 to June 2022.

It is not about red and blue. It is not about Rs and Ds. It is about the people who elected us.

I am glad we are having this hearing to examine, really, the unprecedented levels of fraud in the pandemic unemployment programs.

I don't care if you wear a red shirt or a blue shirt. Start thinking about wearing red, white, and blue, and stop pointing fingers at each other.

This is an irresponsible model that continues to burn through hard-working taxpayers' pockets, and we are sitting about--is it a Democrat problem or is it a Republican problem? Damn it, it is an American problem.

Every--all this fraud lands on the same shoulders that it always lands on, and that is our taxpayers.