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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

I think she makes a very good point.

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.

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.

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…

On that I demand the yeas and nays. The yeas and nays were ordered. The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursuant to clause 9 of rule XX, the Chair will reduce to 5 minutes the minimum time for any electronic vote on the question of passage of the…

This is the final amendment to this bill, which will not kill the bill or send it back to the committee. If adopted, the bill will immediately proceed to final passage, as amended, and you are going to love it. My amendment would prohibit…

I am in its present form. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Clerk will report the motion to recommit. The Clerk read as follows: Mr. Connolly moves to recommit the bill H.R. 1116 to the Committee on Financial Services with instructions to…

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

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

This is a sad day in the swamp, to eliminate oil paintings of men and women who consider themselves very important, to make sure that taxpayer funds are never used for such a thing; sad day for the swamp in Washington. One can come to the…

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.

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