"I appreciate so much what the IGs do and what you do, Mr. Dodaro."
"The frustration that I have is that we come here and we are picking around the edges and getting distracted without really thinking about the overall structure of oversight."
"We need a structure because if we just deal with taking care of the waste, fraud, and abuse of today, there are going to be other opportunities for waste, fraud, and abuse."
"when you do not do those audits, you do not see the patterns in behavior that either could be deterred or they could be, in fact, prosecuted and deterred."
"the bottom line is if she was not prepared to testify in front of us, she should not have been prepared to send out a press release."
"I would be more sympathetic if she had not conveniently released a press release yesterday."
"And I want it sooner rather than later."
"Well, time is wasting."
"I think it is important that we not ignore some additional legislative tools, whether it is additional incentives to work with the States..."
"I might argue that one of the reasons why you see a decline is the increasing interest rates and burden put on young entrepreneurs by the challenges that they have, which includes student debt."
"What I always tell people is--I do something that a lot of people here do not do, which is represent rural America."