It supports Americans who are unable to work and enables them not to live affluently, but to have at least a life.

If Senator Levin here or Dr. Coburn or any of our other colleagues authored and passed 10 times more pieces of legislation, even good pieces of legislation, they do not get paid any more money.

We in Congress have a responsibility, and it is a shared responsibility, but a responsibility to make certain that we make the efforts that we have talked about here.

I am not a lawyer. I am not even a doctor like Dr. Coburn here.

Thank you for that testimony.

Thank you, Dr. Coburn.

Let me change focus just a little bit before we excuse this panel.

We need to look at our entitlement programs and ask what steps we need to take in order to save money.

Thank you so much. That was brief. We are not always that brief here.

I think it was Thomas Jefferson who said that if the American people know the truth, they will not make a mistake.

In adversity lies opportunity.

I think we have a moral imperative to do what is right, the right thing to do, particularly looking out for the least of these in our society.

We cannot tolerate fraud.

That sounds like a big deal.

I want to thank the Senator from Indiana for invoking the name of one of my favorite actors and directors. I would say to my friend, I didn't think our friend Clint Eastwood's appearance at the Republican National Convention was one of his…

it is not enough to just cut, cut, cut but they have to be encouraged and incentivized to find ways

we have thousands of recommendations all across the government agencies that are not being addressed.

I would just urge you to reach out, maybe to Secretary Chuck Hagel if you have a chance...

We have too many departments where we have no confirmed Inspector Generals.

the reason why we are in trouble in our Defense Department is because we have no significant, good metrics with which to manage the decisions we make.

This Committee comes together at an unfortunate time for the American people, for Congress, and for our democratic process.

To get better results for less money has really been our focus for a long time.

I think they have a long ways to go with 455 open recommendations.

It is not fair to them also not fair to the people who we are here to represent, who pay their taxes and will not get the government services they expect and deserve.

Our role is to do oversight and we focus on it big time and we will continue to do this.