Tom Harkin: “If we have an amendment--and I do have an amendment that no one can argue does not save us money. It saves money by…”

“If we have an amendment--and I do have an amendment that no one can argue does not save us money. It saves money by getting the Office of Inspector General funded so they can go after waste, fraud and abuse. I have a letter from her dated 2 days ago where we are literally losing millions of dollars every day because the Office of Inspector General has not been funded fully. I think this is not anyone's purpose. I think this is probably just an oversight of the House that they did this. I cannot imagine that, if we were to adopt that amendment, send it back to the House, they could not approve that in 30 seconds. It does not add to the debt or anything like that. In fact, it is going to save a lot of money for our taxpayers by going after waste, fraud and abuse in the Medicare Program.”