Tom Harkin

I want them to be highly skilled, highly trained, highly motivated. I want a good morale system there. Everyone says it is one of the lowest in terms of morale and has one of the highest turnovers of any Federal agency. Giving these people…

Here is what they can bargain on: grievance procedures-- that helps on morale--nonemergency scheduling--that helps on morale-- awards and recognitions, uniforms, bidding on shifts and procedures used for how they bid on shifts--who gets…

If my friend would yield just for a second, I would just tell him the first plane I owned had an old--I called it a coffee grinder in it, you would get the ANN--annuls--and that would take you into the airport. So I can remember those days…

Maybe we ought to get them involved in some kind of voluntary system to do this.

And if they don't go to jail, then it's just, so what?

Well, thank you for what you're doing. I'm pleased to see this is working.

We're going to work together hand in glove on that one.

I think that the continued funding of the program is essential.

It seems to me this is, nationwide, a small amount of money, we get a big bang for the buck on that one.

Senator Harkin had the foresight to see the need for a grassroots approach to curbing fraud and abuse in Medicare.

Well, I'd like to know how many of these cases you've brought.

Why is no one going to jail?

The continuing resolution they proposed last week would cut $160 million from the omnibus level for combating healthcare fraud and abuse.

I want to welcome Senator Richard Shelby, the distinguished Ranking Member of this subcommittee.

The discretionary funding provided by this subcommittee has been essential to the Nation's efforts to reduce healthcare fraud.

Is there anything that we need to do to help expand this?

To address these issues, our project and other SMPs, utilize a peer education model envisioned by Senator Harkin.

If you are perpetrating fraud on the American people in our public healthcare programs, then we will pursue you.

That's penny wise and pound foolish budgeting.

I will do everything I can to prevent that from happening.

Community action agencies have been wonderful in many ways. First, because they involve local people.

Only Congress has the power of the purse and not the executive branch.

When the President says he is going to veto any bill with earmarks, he is going to have to veto his own budget.

Sixty-three percent of our kids left our Head Start program at or above proficient, ready to go to kindergarten.

I just want you to know this is one United States Senator that appreciates bureaucrats like you and the kind of job that you do.