The Medicaid Program is a lifeline for the most vulnerable, low income and disabled population in Illinois.

The question is what processes does the organization have in place to ensure that bad actors are caught and held accountable.

In short, the Bank is critical to small businesses, manufacturers and job creators in my district and all over the United States.

I share your concern with Tiversa's very predatory practices, and I think we should look more into it.

this is not an unusual amount of time for an investigation like this.

accusations that the department has prematurely closed its investigations are false.

the whole range of options are still open.

there have been no decisions made about this case as of right now.

On the portion of the OCO request that provides provision for Syria, a few things stood out to me.

one of our principal responsibilities here as Members of Congress and especially in this committee is to conduct rigorous oversight of defense programs and policies.

That NSN number, there is a real backlog there for businesses trying to get those numbers.

these are the same folks who voted to cut funding to the State Department.

I wasn't here then. I'm here now, and my focus is moving forward.

So I understand the tension between making sure our embassies are accessible to the host-nation citizens who want to do business with the United States, as well as to allow our embassy personnel to do the jobs that they need to do, but…

I have small businesses in my district that are still struggling.

Last summer more than 100 businesses attended a forum I held in Schaumburg, Illinois, to learn more about the benefits of the Export-Import Bank of the United States. Since then, businesses in my district have told me time and again how…

I am absolutely astounded, gentlemen. These men are dying. These men did not wait when the United States asked for help. They stepped forward immediately and volunteered to serve. Why are we making them wait 70 years?

some of those decisions may have been not necessarily based on the actual facts of how these men served.

we are just basically dragging our--we are just waiting for them to die, which is unconscionable, because they were not waiting for Americans to die before they came forward to help.

we had our own Senator, a great Senator, Daniel Inouye had his Medal of Honor downgraded to a Silver Star simply because of his race.

And what steps has the IRS already taken to understand the circumstances around the loss of Ms. Lerner's documents?

I believe that the Federal agencies should take these inquiries from the Archives very seriously.

Is it fair to say that these long-standing financial and budgetary issues have contributed to the current records retention challenges at the IRS?

But the judges here average more than 1,000 decisions in a given year, and one of you actually completed more than 2,000 decisions in multiple years.

In our previous hearing, Congresswoman Duckworth asked the inspector general if there was any reason for this backlog other than adequate funding.