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

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

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…

So you have brought back the national antifraud committee?

Why was that dismantled in the first place?

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.

When criminals are able to take advantage of Social Security's disability program due to its outdated policies and pay-first chase-later culture, taxpayers and those who count on the vital program end up paying the price.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

I think the American people deserve nothing less.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

The widespread disability fraud uncovered in Puerto Rico and most recently in New York is deeply troubling and unacceptable.

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

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

With the Disability Insurance program unable to pay full benefits as early as 2016, my number one priority has been to keep this program strong for those who truly need it and protect taxpayer dollars.

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

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.

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

Scandal after scandal proves the Social Security Administration is failing to protect precious taxpayer dollars and undermines Americans' confidence in this vital program.

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