Anything we can do to strengthen the controls to prevent overpayment and fraud is great with me, because the hard working Americans in all 50 states rely on these Medicaid services.

Medicaid, a program that is entirely under our jurisdiction in the Energy and Commerce Committee, is a vital program that covers and provides care for some of the nation's most vulnerable populations.

In 2014 Ranking Member DeGette and I looked into the practices of certain dental management service companies within the Medicaid program.

So here we have it here, three very basic steps, don't pay the dead people, don't pay people twice, and, hey, if Aetna, United, Cigna is supposed to be paying the bill, you get them to pay first, before the state reimburses on their…

I am also concerned about allowing entities engaging in fraud to continue to receive Federal funds.

It is inconceivable to me that none of the tests conducted by Takata over the past year on over 30,000 inflators has given us a clearer picture and dictated more direct action.

This looks pretty thin to me.

The American people deserve much better. They deserve to know, when a national recall is announced, if their car part is of the recall.

Clarity and transparency are indeed needed.

I just want to ask you one thing quickly. I was being interviewed on a national business show the other--or last week, and they pointed out to me that in New York, I guess is where the show originated, that they called dealers around the…

One of the hazards of having been on this committee for a number of years is you see themes repeating themselves.

Every morning I fear I am playing headline roulette waiting for another rupture, another injury, another death.