engaged oversight, Senator, to read our reports, look at our reports.

ensure that the FBI complies with the Section 218 provision that the Congress put in place in the Appropriations Act.

I believe there are at least two off of that list that we wrote to the President about some time ago that are still situations where the IG is there in an acting position.

it is funding for our overseas contingency operation, Operation Inherent Resolve, for which we have joint oversight responsibilities.

I ask unanimous consent that the order for the quorum call be rescinded. The PRESIDING OFFICER (Mr. Cassidy). Without objection, it is so ordered. ____________________

As the Presiding Officer, along with Senator Johnson and myself, met the men and women of the Border Patrol last weekend, including Agent Garza, we heard about their work, and it is hard to ignore the fact that they might not know if they…

here in Congress, as the Presiding Officer knows, we do a lot of oversight. Oversight is focused on what is going right as well as what is going wrong in our government. There is a lot of each, actually. That oversight is critically…

Improper payments are a huge problem, and while they are being actually addressed, satisfactorily addressed in a number of areas, a big one that is still the elephant in the room is health care, Medicare especially.

We need to get it done. It will help ratchet down some of those improper payments, especially in Medicare and Medicaid, and we need to make progress.

for every dollar that we invest in the IRS and their people and their technology, they generate roughly $10 worth of revenue.

If there is a plan in place that has been followed, that is a good plan that has milestones and metrics that can transcend changes in political leadership in the Departments.

We know we will never be perfect. But we strive for perfection, because we know everything that we do, we can do better.

I am hopeful he is going to provide wonderful leadership at the IRS.

If you do not have the head of the agency or the deputy focused on this issue, you will make marginal progress, at best, in those areas.

I do not mind paying taxes. I just do not want you to waste my money.

But, we have made progress.

We continue to recommend that would be a good thing to do.

It makes sense to refer to S. 456 because it is very similar to the White House's cybersecurity information-sharing proposal.

Addressing these gaps needs to be a priority, given their impact on so many important issues facing our country.

last weekend--this past weekend--I was privileged to visit our Nation's border with Mexico. Not my first visit but maybe the most productive, most informative visit I have had. I had the opportunity, as a member of the Homeland Security…

I think that is a very large problem.

In order to form a more perfect Union.

Congress has to be a real partner in this effort to ensure success.

we are leaving about $400 billion of money on the table of money that is not being collected.

Tom Coburn is gone, but that spirit that he brought to this Committee for all those years is still being nurtured by me.