Every now and then I ask witnesses--as we try to drill down and find out where we can save some money, I ask the witnesses to just say what can the Legislative Branch of our govern...
Dedicated those errors or dedicated the resources? You said 'dedicated those errors,' but you mean dedicated resources.
The next step is to go out and recover the money that has been improperly paid if there is a recovery to be had.
It is not enough to be good. You have to be great and continue to get better.
I think it is time we take a very hard look at this program as to whether or not the taxpayers are getting a bang for th...
It is a serious issue, and the oversight of prescription drugs is incredibly important.
I actually voted to create [the Medicare prescription drug program], and we want to hear about not just the good that it...
We have been using recovery audit contractors... to go out and try to track down fraud and recover money.
We are going to require them to, and then come back later on this year with some way to incentivize them.
If we want to incentivize people to be whistleblowers, why don't we at least try to protect them?
I think your idea of asking GAO to come back to us in about 6 months is a good one.