"Obviously, I want the law to be reauthorized."
"Combating fraud was on Congress' radar before the creation of the task force."
"I am concerned that by not having a formal budget, expenditures for travel could be unnecessarily high."
"I congratulate you on your leadership of this committee."
"The Recovery Accountability and Transparency Board was created as part of that law to oversee how the funds were spent to ensure that they were not subject to fraud, waste and abuse."
"I have a series of questions. I do not know if we will get through all of them, but I would kind of like to get a handle on budget and financial control."
"This task force was created in November of 2009. Senator Leahy and I wrote the Fraud Enforcement Recovery Act of 2009, signed into law May of 2009."
"Why is the Recovery Act working group necessary given the existence of the Recovery Accountability and Transparency Board?"
"President Obama's stimulus program had a lot of taxpayers' money into it, into various projects and programs across the country."
"Today's hearing provides us the opportunity to fulfill our constitutional duty and a continuing basis to conduct oversight."
"we established a record that was able to help us get the false claims bill passed, and that bill, as you know, has brought $28 billion back into the Federal Treasury."