Gerry Connolly

I guess I couldn't disagree more vehemently than with my friend who just spoke.

So even with inflation, that is a big cut.

Healthcare is an investment. We do not want anyone cheating.

I do not think we are using U.S. attorneys all that well for fraud, and I will give you an example.

I think she makes a very good point.

Overwhelmingly people who take advantage of Medicaid need it. They are not gaming the system. They are not takers.

How about we start now? And people have to know they cannot get away with it.

We need you to get back to us in developing methodologies in disaggregating the improper payment global number so that we can better devise strategies.

The improper payment part of Medicaid is too high. Ten percent is not tolerable.

We should reject the notion that errors in Medicaid justify slashing Federal funding, or undermining the Federal/State financing structure, or imposing work requirements on Medicaid beneficiaries.

We simply cannot say that, well, we have lost that if for no other reason besides the fact that this is taxpayer money.

I hope we will use this hearing as an opportunity to learn from the experts gathered today how we can improve the Medicaid Program.

One of those pending States is Tennessee. Is that correct?

We are on the brink of a bipartisan agreement to finally expand Medicaid pursuant to the Affordable Care Act.

Medicaid works. It does its job: 76 million Americans, 43 percent of them children, benefit from Medicaid.

The MGT Act we just passed into law, and I was proud to be an original Democratic co-sponsor, may help agencies with funding challenges by allowing agencies to establish working capital funds to reinvest IT savings in the enterprise and to…

Disparagement of the work force, freezing salaries, extending probationary periods for new hires from 1 to 2 years--these are not helpful, especially if we are targeting the millennial generation that expects so much more in the workplace.

The shortage of qualified Federal employees to work on IT and cybersecurity has also hindered DHS and agency efforts to implement CDM.

I thank my friend from Iowa, with whom I share a dry sense of humor. I will remind him, being Irish, that leprechauns are always on the shoulder, especially this time of year. Mr. Speaker, I like this bill. I think most taxpayers are going…

We can't even know for us. But I do know this: Whatever amount of money we spent on DARPANET, it was worth every cent.

This Member of Congress trembles at a 21 percent cut that Ms. Kelly pointed out to us at the beginning in her opening statement.

Drones, developed by the private sector or was that a Federal R&D investment as well?

America does not make itself great again when it retreats from the field of R&D.

So GPS, which is now ubiquitous, we all take it for granted, you can't even lie about getting lost going to a meeting anymore.

Let's stipulate you all support the President's budget and it is perfect and you wouldn't change a word or a number.