Joseph Pitts actually said...

"I have dedicated much of my career in Congress to improving the quality and efficiency of both the Medicare and Medicaid programs."

"Medicare has been on the Government Accountability Office's high-risk list continuously since GAO began designating programs as high risk in 1990."

"Fighting fraud is critical to both of these and critical to being responsible stewards of taxpayers' dollars, an issue where we should be able to achieve bipartisan consensus."

"We are now seeing the impact of provisions in the Affordable Care Act that help us move away from the traditional 'pay and chase' approach to a more proactive approach designed to prevent fraud before..."