Political Quotes

“since coming to the Senate and assuming the Chairmanship of the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, one of my top priorities has been the seemingly never-ending fight to ferret out and eliminate waste, fraud and abuse in federal government programs. We've all heard the horror stories of $500 hammers and roads built to nowhere. The waste of scarce federal resources not only picks the pockets of the taxpayers but also places severe financial pressures on already overburdened programs, forcing cutbacks in the delivery of vital government services. Over the past year, I have seen this waste first-hand as the Subcommittee put a spotlight on massive fraud in the Medicare program. To cite just one example, the Subcommittee's investigation revealed that the federal government had been sending Medicare checks to 14 health care companies whose address, if they had existed, was in the middle of the runway of the Miami International Airport. That fraud cost the taxpayers millions of dollars, diverting scarce resources from the elderly and legitimate health care providers.”