Mike Johnson

The expansion of information technology to include additional products would have significant benefit for U.S. manufacturers and consumers.

Our request this year is for 34.6 based on our best assessment that given our removal priorities...

I think the American people deserve nothing less.

I am hopeful, Mr. Chairman, that the Social Security Fraud and Error Prevention Act of 2014... can come to the floor in a bipartisan way.

Why was that dismantled in the first place?

Social Security's budget increased by 27 percent from 2006 to 2014 at the same time that major fraud scandals were going on.

Routing out fraud is a team effort. We need people who suspect something to say something.

We need your support to ensure that we can continue to enhance our antifraud efforts.

So you have brought back the national antifraud committee?

Preventing fraud ought not to be a partisan issue, and I don't think it is, at least the way you and I see it.

It is vitally important that we prevent fraud, waste, and errors that could drain the trust funds and prevent us from paying Americans the benefits they earned and depend on to pay their bills.

As part of my ongoing efforts as chairman to rout out fraud, waste, and abuse in the Social Security Disability Insurance program, we are here on behalf of the 11 million people with disabilities and their families and hardworking…

When criminals are able to take advantage of Social Security's disability program due to its outdated policies and pay-first chase-later culture, taxpayers and those who count on the vital program end up paying the price. That's wrong! If…

Today announced a hearing on ways to prevent conspiracy fraud in the Social Security Disability Insurance program.

The cuts are due to ObamaCare.

Let's get beyond this. Let's find--if we have--if there is an agenda of amendments that can reduce fraud and abuse, I ask the Majority to hold a hearing on your proposals.

If any Member of Congress tries to use the fraudulent activities to taint the sick and wounded first responders of 9/11, they will have to deal with me directly.

It is to make sure that we protect the integrity of this system for the American taxpayers.

We better wake up and smell the coffee. No wonder the American people have such a low opinion of us.

We are not defrauding Social Security. And we better start to understand who we represent here.

But it has been going on for years. It seems to me you should have been more aware of it.

Well, it seems like it took an awful long time to uncover this last one.

I think if we don't go after these crime rings, you know, the federal prosecutors are sending a message to professional crooks and the phony disabled that committing fraud pays off.

Hard-working taxpayers want, need, and deserve answers and action now to restore their confidence in Social Security.

I am outraged. But, more importantly, the American people are outraged.