James Lankford actually said...

"I don't like it when I read reports from the Attorney General when he writes back to the inspector general and says, I have determined that providing the OIG with access to it is helpful to me, and so..."

"The specific goal of this hearing is to be able to determine how do we keep this from happening again."

"The difficulty is are we getting accurate, matchable data that we can actually line up what is happening in individual locations with what is being paid so we know what a provider is being paid."

"But an individual hospital may get a much, much higher rate?"