We also had testimony on MSIS audits that they do not include provider identification. These audits are worthless if you cannot source data to the provider, because that is where it starts.

Well, I think that tells us one problem: No accountability, no responsibility, no consequence for failure.

But overall, government total spending was $1 billion, and we got $4 billion in savings.

If the doctors who are signing false certifications for home health are not going to jail, you are not sending the signal for other doctors to change their behavior.

Nobody in America can figure out why we continue to pay dead people money--LIHEAP payments, Medicaid payments.

It is inexcusable that it is not happening.

There is something wrong when 37 percent of the Senate would like to have a discussion about an issue and the Majority Leader will not bring it to the floor.

We do not want to know whether we are creating a new duplicative program.

Thank you for your service. It is a very tough job.

if you cannot measure what you are doing, you cannot manage it.

the fact is that is just an absence of leadership both in the Bush Administration and in this one.