Mark Meadows

Either CMS intentionally gave misleading information to insurers, insurance companies across the Country on December 18th or you lied to me.

I will too because, according to my numbers, there are hundreds of thousands of people getting the wrong subsidy.

You know approximately how many people are getting the wrong subsidy.

So have you notified those people that it is incorrect?

You are perpetrating a fraud on the American people.

So let's go back to the definition of fraud, would you agree, is knowing that you are doing something that is incorrect and not telling anybody?

So there are recommendations that you deemed important that they did not respond to?

Do you expect the same response this time?

Is it really a resource problem or a management problem?

If you tell the 80-plus people that were facing death about the things we have done, they don't care about that.

How many people have to die and how many events do we have to have before we can answer that question?

So WMATA should have known that the track was energized, not energized?

Yes, I need yeses or noes. I only have 5 minutes.

We need to use this safety event as a wake-up call.

I want to personally start out by thanking the ranking member, my good friend Gerry Connolly.

If we don't, the American people will grow weary of giving.

As you say, that is so important.

It is imperative that we have confidence that what we are providing is not subject to waste, fraud, abuse, or diversion to terror groups.

The American people are very generous and caring and giving people.

That is very difficult for me to sell back in North Carolina.

I want to really start to focus on that.

Everybody knows the path we are on now is not sustainable.

It is a pleasure to welcome my good friend to the committee.

The chairman points out very clearly that, indeed, the definition of ``private sector'' includes individuals. I would also like to go further and talk about small businesses. We are talking about small businesses and how they are not…

U.S. law is clear. There will be no aid to the Palestinian Authority.