Gerry Connolly

It is my impression in talking with the U.S. Attorneys Offices that Medicare fraud has increasingly moved up as a priority for them and consumes a lot of their time in terms of bringing charges against organized fraudulent activity on…

Mr. Chairman, given your incredible generosity, would you allow me one more question and I don't think it is a long one.

$48 billion is a staggering sum of money. It is unacceptable for two reasons.

Never once has there been an error, never once have they had to be reminded to meet an obligation, never once have they arbitrarily denied something that was important to us in sharp contrast to the private insurance system.

It has been very successful thus far and we are continuing to build on that.

I thank you. Mr. Chairman, my time is up.

I don't defend Fast and Furious, and I don't defend the actions of the U.S.

I demand a recorded vote. The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to clause 6 of rule XVIII, further proceedings on the amendment offered by the gentleman from Virginia will be postponed. It is now in order to consider amendment No. 7 printed in House…

I deeply regret that because I think you could provide enormous visionary leadership in protecting the consumers of America, and I deeply regret that one party decided to make that a partisan issue rather than try to come together and find…

Every single Republican in the Senate signed that letter you referenced saying they will move to block any nominee of the President's; so if we can't win legislatively, we're going to use other mechanisms to make sure that your mandate is…

Thank you and Mr. Chairman, I hope you will join us in that legislative effort because I think it is a good bipartisan piece of legislation that could actually save us some money and codify what Mr. Kundra has so ably begun.

I have introduced a bill, the Federal Cost Reduction Act, to make that statutory, just in case other people go away, and would double that goal over the next 5 year period.

This tool is unprecedented and there is lots of transparency and accountability.

I certainly hope his good work will not be discarded but in fact attended to because I think he set us on the right path in terms of U.S. technology policy.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman.

I demand a recorded vote. The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to clause 6 of rule XVIII, further proceedings on the amendment offered by the gentleman from Virginia will be postponed. Amendment No. 4 Offered by Mr. Harris

I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will report the amendment. The Clerk read as follows: Page 23, line 4, after the dollar amount, insert ``(increased by $46,000,000)''. Page 24, line 18, after the dollar amount…

I demand a recorded vote. The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to clause 6 of rule XVIII, further proceedings on the amendment offered by the gentleman from Virginia will be postponed. Amendment Offered by Mr. Kucinich

I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: Page 9, line 6, after the dollar amount, insert ``(reduced by $15,000,000)''. Page 31, line 17, after the…

I demand a recorded vote. The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to clause 6 of rule XVIII, further proceedings on the amendment offered by the gentleman from Virginia will be postponed. Amendment No. 23 Offered by Mr. Broun of Georgia

I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will report the amendment. The Clerk read as follows: Page 9, line 6, after the dollar amount, insert ``(reduced by $10,000,000)''. Page 31, line 17, after the dollar amount…

At the same time, I think we also need to recognize we need to preserve people's individual liberties...

We want to break down the stovepipes here so that we are sharing experience and intelligence across agencies to try to deter the threat.

Is there a mechanism within the Federal Government for exchanging best practices, experiences, tapping into the private sector expertise and the like?

I hope the chairman heard that, very good and extremely important questions, Mr. Chaffetz.