Joseph Pitts actually said...

"How can we protect the most vulnerable in our society if we don't protect the integrity of the system that was intended to serve them?"

"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."