Tom Carper actually said...

"When you say poor performance, by the contractor?"

"None of us escape blame. And if we are going to turn this around, all of us have a role to play."

"What we are trying to do is to improve our ability, when fraud occurs or when we just make overpayments, mistakes, to be able to go out and recover--after the fact, recover the money from those that h..."

"I would rather spend the money, quite frankly, going after the people that have either breached the contract or not performed instead of just saying here is the check, we are going to close you down."