Paul Gosar

I think you highlight a good starting point, but I also think that we have to start with a culture of accountability.

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I urge all Members to support the passage of H.R. 5954, and I yield back the balance of my time.

I now yield such time as he may consume to my distinguished colleague from the State of Washington, the sponsor of this legislation, Mr. Reichert.

We should be focusing on the family. They are telling you what is going on.

We ought to be looking at, how do we help parents in a dietary format?

It seems to me we are focusing something wrong here.

This is an action well deserved, and boy, you are right on top of it

To put this number in perspective, Medicaid spending on New York's developmental centers alone exceeded the entire Medicaid budgets of 14 States.

Today's hearing highlights another brazen example of Government failure.

Today we have a real chance to address Government failure head-on and reign in abuse and mismanagement of one of the Nation's largest programs.

I think part of the conversation should also be talking together about how we are going to improve the ongoing monitoring of our upper payment limit as also another mechanism by which to avoid these kinds of problems.

So I want to make sure, for the record, that we are going to scale payments back to one-fifth of what they currently are?

We have got to have a common-sense application in making sure that people in the know and those making decisions are held accountable for what is right and what is wrong; wouldn't you agree?

I think these are real glaring issues that we ought to continue to pay attention to.

I mean, this is deceiving and fleecing of the American taxpayer.

Well, we are going to go along those same lines, Ms. Thompson.

Do you think it was only because of the Poughkeepsie article that drew our attention that we actually are highlighting and actually are talking about this today?

That sounds wonderful.

Should Congress have a legislative and oversight role in the new authorities laid out by the Chu memorandum? And how so?

I guess they don't realize that whiskey is for drinking, water is for fighting over.

Isn't that part of the Forest Service's problem, their ineptness with the bureaucracy?

There is a limited budget that we can work by, and this is a way that you actually have an increased revenue stream to utilize a natural resource properly.

We are just a big loser all the way around.

We spent almost $400 million putting that fire out, and we lost 2.5 billion in assets.