However, in this environment, with the deficit crisis and the kinds of fiscal restraints that we are under, no program can be immune from examination, especially where there are reports of waste and examples of fraud.
Emphasizing the need for scrutiny of programs amidst fiscal challenges.
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Mr. Fitzpatrick. Mr. Director, my time has expired. Would you be willing to just lay out all the exceptions to transparency on releasing the data that you were going to give us today?
How is it the rating agencies get to pick and choose what debt they are going to rate and what debt they are not going to rate, especially when it affects small investors in the United States of America?
Transparency and government accountability is what sets the United States of America apart from most other countries in the world.
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