The captain of the ship is expected to stand up and take responsibility and say, 'This happened on my watch.'

I ask unanimous consent that the quorum call be vitiated. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.

I am honored and privileged to stand here today and to say good words on behalf of Ernest Jay Moniz, also known as Dr. Moniz and Ernie Moniz. He is one of my favorite people from the world of academia. I have in my hand a bio of him that I…

good evening. The Budget While I was waiting for a chance to say a few words on the floor, I was on the phone and had a conversation with someone who has run a couple of very successful companies in our country. I do not know if he is a…

The job of government with respect to job creation is, people think sometimes their Senators think that they create jobs, or Governors create jobs, or Presidents create jobs, and I always say, No, we do not create jobs.

I call the GAO High Risk List this Committee's to-do list.

Today we are pleased to consider the nomination of Brian Deese, President Obama's choice to serve as our Deputy Director of the Office of Management and Budget.

What I think they do is represent a way to encourage collaboration, encourage a sense of teamwork in terms of delivering health care.

Not only, Federal agencies, do we want you to report improper payments, we want you to stop making them.

I have said it a time or two before, but it is just something here that bears repeating often.

One of the initiatives that Dr. Coburn and I worked on in the last Congress, something called the Medicare and Medicaid Fighting Fraud and Abuse to Save Taxpayers' Dollars Act (FAST Act)...

The hearing will come to order, although this is a hearing that is already in order, even with a 5½ month old baby girl, remarkably.

I am encouraged that we are seeing these significant drops in the level of improper payments.

The budget deficit topped out a couple of years ago at about $1.4 trillion.

Reform our entitlement programs, and to do so in a way that saves money.

We must use every tool available to put our fiscal house in order and to give the American people the government they expect and deserve.

I like to say that there are three things that we need to do in order to continue to rein in the deficit.

We need adequate and sustained funding to carry out these reviews.

Despite some progress that has been made, error rates in the amount of money lost to avoidable errors still remains at unacceptably high levels.

The law aims to make agencies and agency leadership far more accountable for the expensive mistakes they make.

The best player on the team is the one who makes everybody else better.

We have to figure out how to keep the deficit on the way back down.

It sure is a States rights issue. I would be remiss if I didn't say this. I know my colleague has to leave. But in my first term as Governor, I had never heard of Mike Enzi. Who is this Mike Enzi guy? It turns out he is a great guy. He is…

I wish to join with the Senator from Georgia. There are issues we disagree on, but this is a subject we agree on--another one we agree on. I was privileged to be the Governor of Delaware for 8 years, and now I have served with the Senator…

There is a scripture in the New Testament. I will not get this exactly right. I think it is in the book of James, and it says, "Show me your faith by your words. I will show you my faith by my deeds."