I think the problem is elections. And I think it is the lack of courage and character in Members of Congress.

We, as Members of Congress, don't know what is going on, and in our desire to please and to meet compassionately a need, we do try to act, but we act without knowledge because we haven't done the oversight.

The one key thing, we don't have any metrics on any of this.

What we have to do is pay attention to what our goal was originally.

We take a series of commonsense steps to identify and prevent fraud and waste in Medicare and Medicaid.

There is now a companion bill in the House led by Congressman Peter Roskam and Congressman Carney from Delaware.

This new law aimed at making agencies and agency leadership far more accountable for the expensive mistakes that they make.

I believe a lot more work needs to be done to identify, recover and prevent improper payments.

But if privacy is so important and if everybody at the table supports that, what is wrong with having the reminder that you are sharing your privacy?

I believe the Video Privacy Protection Act has become antiquated given all the new technology that is out there.

I believe the decision is between protecting privacy and promoting commerce, and I think we ought to be able to figure out how to do both.