It is the Government Accountability Office and the Taxpayer Advocate, which are trusted and nonpartisan voices on these issues.

the government paid more in improper Medicaid payments last year than it spends in a year for the ENTIRE Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) program.

Senator Coats and I have had one approach, a 31-line 1040 form.

The Congress has to do everything it possibly can to eliminate both fraud and improper payments.

I hope that we will not just have a conversation about this. I hope we will do it.

We look at the challenge of improper payments as an opportunity to make our tax system and spending programs work better.

Let me begin by saying that nobody on this side of the aisle is ever going to back down from the challenge of fixing improper payments and fighting fraud.

If you are a working family in Indiana or in Oregon, you have your taxes taken directly out of your paycheck.

When it comes to combating actual fraud, the Government Accountability Office and the National Taxpayer Advocate have said that one of the best ways to go after these tax fraudsters is by protecting American taxpayers from predatory and…

I really feel there is a double standard with respect to enforcement in America.

What Senator Coats and I have sought to do all these years... is to try to clean out a lot of that junk.

But just solving the immediate crisis is not a long-term solution.

Puerto Rico won't be able to move forward until there's an understanding of what's holding it back.

The bottom line is that the solutions have to help Puerto Rico and its millions of American citizens build a stronger economic future, or else this debt cycle will continue and continue and continue.

Two out of 3 of you seem to believe that the current status and enhanced Commonwealth are no longer options. . . .

I hope to be able to hear our witnesses.

No single policy or harsh austerity platform is going to save the day.

It is in the best interests of Puerto Rico and our country.

It is the Earned Income Tax Credit. I cannot think of any other Federal legislation since the mid-1970s that has been both adopted and improved by both Republican and Democratic Presidents and Congresses.

Without a process for restructuring that debt, the problem does not go away on its own.

I want to take a few minutes today to discuss the enormous importance of America's most critical safety net program--Social Security. In particular, I want to talk about the Social Security Disability Insurance program and introduce a…

I believe they overreached with bulk collection. That undermined the confidence of consumers.

today I am introducing the Mt. Hood Cooper Spur Land Exchange Clarification Act. This bill is a necessary step to ensuring that the Cooper Spur land exchange on Mt. Hood proceeds as Congress originally intended when it passed as a part of…

Recreation is a major economic engine for the country.

I think colleagues know the 11 Western Senators said before we left for the August break that priority one for the West this September was to fix this broken system of fighting fire.