Tom Carper actually said...

"The third part of it is we want you to go out and use private recovery contractors to go out and recover as much of the money that has been improperly paid, overpaid, as you can."

"Let me say this: About roughly half--of the ideas of what we need to do to stop making these improper payments, about half of them, maybe half of them, have been acted on, but the rest have not."

"The plan totaled some $787 billion over a couple of years, much of it in the form of tax cuts for working Americans."

"Part of what we tried to do in the improper payments legislation that Senator McCain and I, Senator Collins and others, Senator Coburn, Senator McCaskill, had worked on is we said basically there are ..."