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.
What Senator Coats and I have sought to do all these years... is to try to clean out a lot of that junk.
I also feel that your recommendation there at page 43, with respect to tax enforcement, is important.
If you are a working family in Indiana or in Oregon, you have your taxes taken directly out of your paycheck.
It is the Government Accountability Office and the Taxpayer Advocate, which are trusted and nonpartisan voices on these ...
I largely cited it in my opening statement because of the good work that you all did back in 2014.
We look at the challenge of improper payments as an opportunity to make our tax system and spending programs work better...
We need to beef up tax enforcement, and particularly, given your testimony, we need to beef it up so that it targets tho...
When it comes to combating actual fraud, the Government Accountability Office and the National Taxpayer Advocate have sa...
I hope that we will not just have a conversation about this. I hope we will do it.
The Pentagon should not get a free pass when it comes to improper payments just because some members of Congress find it...