We see the same institution or city or grant recipient get multiple awards from different grant programs within the Justice Department for exactly the same thing.

the costs of the COPS program outweigh the benefits by more than a billion dollars.

Any grant program that has a grant application ought to have a stipulation that whoever is the grantee affirms that they are not getting another Federal grant for exactly the same thing.

tens, if not hundreds, of billions of dollars could be saved through the consolidation or elimination of such programs.

Our tendency to put a parochial benefit into the things we do in Congress has driven us to lead to all the duplication.

Every dollar we spend we find that is wasted can be reallocated to things that are actually doing some good.

the important thing that has not happened in my years in the Senate is significant oversight of how we spend money.

We have ignored the enumerated powers of the Constitution.

Congress has failed to do its job, and oftentimes OMB has failed to do its job, and I have a lot of confidence that you can actually make a very big difference for our country.

it has turned into an all-hazards agency, which was never its intent

we cannot ever get answers