I am confident that you will work to protect the spirit of the letter of the Endangered Species Act.

That one place.

$21 billion--$21 billion--over 10 years by detecting and avoiding improper payments.

We want you to stop making them. Federal agencies, we want you to report them.

All right. That is a good point.

One of the concerns, primarily among Democrats but also by Republicans and some Independents, is how do we reduce entitlement spending without significantly cutting benefits and inflicting real harm on people.

The enormous waste and fraud challenges that we have...call out for very large efforts.

What else can we be doing?

Thanks to the good work by folks on my staff and on Senator Coburn's staff, some good work has been done drilling down on Medicare and on Medicaid to find there are ways for us to be able to reduce outlays from those programs, but to do so…

if we take out half of the fraud in Medicare, that is another $30 billion a year times 10 years is $300 billion.

the President says we are going to cut improper payments in Medicare by half by the end of next year