Political Quotes

“I wanted to build off the comments that our friend from South Dakota made in talking about the amount of money that comes to Washington and how Washington responds. Obviously, the Congress appropriates this money to the executive branch. What this chart points out is that there are nine major agencies or cabinet level offices that cannot get a clean audit. It means that the auditors come in and say that their internal procedures are not good enough to give a high degree of confidence that their reporting in their financial statements accurately reflects what is happening. The first thing we ought to be really scared about is the one we have listed first, the Treasury Department. Our Treasury Department cannot get a clean audit. We have talked about education. The interesting thing here is that neither Treasury nor Education can get a clean audit, and one of the problems that we have highlighted in the education department is that they have the authority to write checks and at the end of the month, when they check what they have written against what the Treasury Department has reported as being cashed, they cannot reconcile these two numbers. So we have two major departments, Treasury and Education, which cannot get clean audits. The Justice Department cannot get a clean audit, the Defense Department cannot get a clean audit, the Agriculture Department cannot get a clean audit, EPA, HUD, OPM, and AID. None of these agencies can get clean audits.”