First, make sure all Federal agencies, including Medicare, all parts of Medicare, Medicaid, are reporting improper payments.

As I understand it, during this last year we stood down the recovery audit contracting activities in these five States and did a lessons learned.

But from my standpoint, my guiding principle is to make sure that HHS is as aggressive on the spectrum as they can be without crossing into lines of inequity or administrative problem.

the leadership involvement and emphasis is so critical.

we are looking for--in the Legislative Branch, we are always looking for pay-fors

So I would still get more money than Senator McCain.

I want to make sure that the way we do the census then will be a good deal different than the way we have done it this year and 10 years ago and 20 years ago and so forth.

The second piece is we want you to stop making them. We want to stop making them.

I often say right here in this hearing room, if it is not perfect, make it better; everything I do I know I can do better.

Your continuing championing this issue is helpful for me.

Nobody is as smart as everybody.