Our responsibility is, number one, to make sure there is good clinical judgment.

we have focused like a laser on Federal information technology projects that have gone billions of dollars over budget without ever delivering any real benefit.

we must stop the fiscal bleeding caused by waste, by fraud, and by abuse.

State Medicaid pharmacy benefits tend to work very differently than the Part D drug benefit.

As you consider this, just keep in mind--I am going to read the same statement I gave earlier.

data is a powerful tool not just for investigators but for management to actually oversee and manage a program

this has been our singular focus and continues to be.

Our country faces huge budget deficits. We are not sure how we are going to get out of it.

Ultimately, it is the VA's responsibility.

I hope they are going to be successful because we need that.

Something tells me that there is something wrong.

For every servicemember that a for-profit college recruits... the for-profit college can then go out and enroll nine other students.

Great, thanks very much for that testimony. Really, uniformly excellent testimony from this panel. Thank you. Thank you all.

All of us have to be part of the solution, and my hope is that following today's hearing, we will be more inspired to do that.

I think at the end of the day, it has to be a combination of cutting spending, a combination of raising some revenues, a combination of growing the heck out of the economy, in combination of getting better results for less money in every…

If I am a veteran coming home using the Post-9/11 GI Bill and I have a complaint about the school, with whom do I address this concern?

I believe our higher education incentives are misaligned.

If we want to be competitive, we have to specialize, that is to say we have to out-educate, out-innovate, out-compete everybody else.

There have been too many instances, especially I think in the House, strongly opposed.

So out of 6,000, one has been barred?

I think that is an important distinction that we should maintain and keep that in front of our mind

If we remain on our current course, our debt may double again by the end of this decade.

Most of us in this room today, however, understand that we simply cannot cut our way out of debt, tax our way out of debt, or save our way out of debt.

They do a great job with the resources they have, but they haven't had enough since 2006.

Veterans, the very people who have defended our country and protected our Constitutional Republic and given us the free market society that we in business so dearly enjoy, deserve better treatment.