Jun 9, 2014
We ought to review where the outliers are, but we also ought to fund appropriately and also have the judges really pay attention to the career Social Security people.
Tom Coburn
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Tom Coburn is a former U.S. Senator from Oklahoma, serving from 2005 to 2015. A member of the Republican Party, Coburn was known for his fiscal conservatism and advocacy for government transparency. He was a practicing physician before entering politics, which influenced his views on healthcare and government spending. Throughout his tenure, he was a vocal critic of wasteful government expenditures and often called for reforms to improve accountability in Congress.
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Jun 9, 2014
I believe he should be prosecuted, I believe Judge Andrus should be prosecuted, and I believe Mr. Conn should be prosecuted.
Jun 9, 2014
I am all for funding a real CDR at adequate levels, but you are fixing the wrong problem.
Jun 8, 2014
Chief Vitiello, would you support capping the number of agents getting 100 hours at 90 percent until an audit is done that would say you need to go above that?
Jun 3, 2014
We have spent $2.9 billion on the Port Security Grant Program with no metrics to measure whether or not we have actually improved our security.
Jun 3, 2014
We need to have a better approach than 2 to 4 percent scanning that we are seeing today.
Jun 3, 2014
We cannot stop every attack that is going to come to this country, but we can certainly make it much more difficult.
Jun 3, 2014
If we are going to spend $100 million this year on Port Security Grants, and the total bill for bringing our tier one ports is $2.5 billion, we are 12½ years from bringing them.
May 13, 2014
Sort of the central devotion of your purpose of public service is to help people better their position in life.
May 13, 2014
There's a thimble and a half full now of common sense in Washington, and she's the half.
May 13, 2014
The large firms routinely use the Federal Government to enhance their capability toward oligopolies.
May 13, 2014
Why can't they just submit this employee has this card, you have already approved them for handling the highest-risk chemicals?
May 13, 2014
If they have already cleared one agency in DHS, why do they have to clear another one?
May 13, 2014
The regulatory cost for a smaller chemical distributor versus a large one...we are going to drive the small firms out of business.
May 13, 2014
I want to tell you how enthused I am with the leadership at DHS and the changes that are occurring.
May 12, 2014
Hagel ought to have on his desk every day every major acquisition program, once a week at least, where they are on their timelines, where they are on their budgets, where they are in terms of changes of requirements.
May 12, 2014
The decisionmaking process and the knowledge about how to buy IT--buying IT is hard. The other thing is, is you have to really know what you want before you order it, and I think some of the biggest problems is, is we do not know what we…
May 12, 2014
That says we did not know what we want, we were not managing the project right.
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