I was not a big fan of the Affordable Care Act, but the fraud provisions in it, I readily support.

But when?

When is it that you are going to have suspicious claims stopped pay?

As recently as July 2011, Senator Tom Coburn introduced an amendment to eliminate the presumption of service connection for Vietnam War veterans exposed to the poison Agent Orange.

If you don't know what you want, you are not any different than the agency that is passing a grant out there.

I agree. We don't know the depths and the intents.

None of these contractors had an approved disclosure statement.

You need to know what you want before you write it, what you intend and what you expect.

Regulations are killing our country. That is not partisan.

Well, it is because we are lazy legislators. What we decide is we will pass a bill and grant maximum flexibility to the bureaucracy.

We are responsible for allowing all of the duplication that has come because we have passed the legislation and appropriations bills that have actually caused it.