I believe that standard is antithetical to the proper role of a judge.

I believe our founders thought that the Supreme Court would be the check and balance on the commerce clause, the general welfare clause, and the insurance of the 10th Amendment.

I think our Nation is at a critical point. I think we are starting to see cracks.

We do not do a thorough job in making clear our intent or the background of our intent.

I think one of the things we do want to do is we want to make sure President Obama gets qualified judges and the ones he selects.

I have great admiration and respect for him.

I would ask for certain that the record be left open.

Making Medicare an even less attractive model for nationalized health care is that the program is rife with fraud, waste, and abuse.

If, in fact, you defraud the Federal Government, consequently, there ought to be a harsh penalty for that.

What I am afraid is we are going to be 3 years behind on the recovery audits and we are going to be taking money from people that may or may not deserve it.

According to some estimates, the annual amount of fraudulent payments made by Medicare approaches $60 billion.

To me, that would tell me where to work, because if there is a correlation, you don't need to be spending your time in Minnesota or Iowa, where we know we have lower costs and better outcomes.

As our Nation prepares for a historic debate over the direction of health care policy, hearings on waste and fraud in Medicare and Medicaid are vitally important.

We are going to be allowed questions for the record?

I do not consider constitutional amendments lightly. Modifying the Nation's founding document should only be done in the most compelling circumstances.

I consider it a high honor to serve in this role, as matters within this Committee's jurisdiction... are among the Senate's most awesome responsibilities.

I am concerned about it and I know the President is concerned about it.

I have heartburn over the $787 billion. I have heartburn over the $55.1 billion.

I am hearing that you plan to move USAspending.gov to Recovery.gov, which scares me to death based on what I see in Recovery.gov.

The 7 percent figure bothers me, but the 10 percent figure on the Federal Government bothers me even more.

One of the problems that we have in the Federal Government is Congress telling us how we budget.

What we ought to be doing is redoubling our efforts to where we get that down to about 2 or 3 percent.

Thirty-six billion of it is wasted. The American taxpayer needs to know that.

Actually, the President, Senator Carper, myself, and Senator McCain put through USAspending.gov.

I would suggest, besides what Senator Collins said, put Ad Council ads on TV for seniors about these scams.