But we also have a choice this year as to whether we put in the budget request--whether we adopt the budget requested by the Administration, I assume, for these efforts.
We need that watchdog.
When I joined the agency in 2007, I reversed the trend in declining program integrity work.
You made the allegation. There may be a flat-wrong conclusion.
I assume that is true around the country that you are trying to get these backlogs down.
Doesn't that get to the heart of this issue?
I am not sure there is a definition of fraud that is different between you and the GAO.
A number of us signed a letter--it is a bipartisan letter--on this funding issue on the staffing levels.
That is not going to cut the mustard.
We have to put the resources where they should be going.
Fraud ought to be commonly defined or told to us that there is a difference on this.