"Getting our budget deficit under control is not going to be an easy task. It will require tough choices and discipline."
"All too often, however, agencies are failing to meet their responsibilities in this regard."
"I think one of the better initiatives that came out of the George W. Bush Administration was the idea of the Improper Payments Information Act."
"I think there is a necessity to try to align the agency and the work that you all do with the law."
"I think too often we try to take our programs and build up to a number, not really having an expectation that the number may be so large that the process will not get us where we need to go."
"Let us make sure FEMA has not put limitations on itself that the law did not intend."
"What can we do at the Congressional level, this Subcommittee, this Committee, the Senate, the House, to address some of those vulnerabilities?"
"We need to find ways to have them actually come forward and tell us they found a problem."
"I think one of the things we did in Sarbanes-Oxley is literally the CEO of the company, when a company verifies or certifies that they have scrubbed their books, they have done the right thing. The CE..."
"Senator Coburn and I worked on changes to the Improper Payments Act."
"Thank you for that excellent testimony."