The Federal Government is broken. It makes their lives more complicated.
I think they have forgotten who the customer is, and if I need to remind everybody again, the customer is the taxpayer.
I am convinced that most often, these bureaucracies... are more focused on serving the bureaucracy.
If you want a willing partner--and I want to be one--then you have to give me the information that you have.
We are $21 trillion in debt, total debt. It exceeds the size of our economy, a very dangerous place for us to be.
I know what privatization means for rural Missouri, and I will not go there on postal.
There are 441 Federal departments, agencies, and sub-agencies listed in the Federal Register.
It is obvious that the Federal Government needs a very close evaluation and is well overdue for serious reorganization.
Are we really taking into account the permanent damage that is being done right now?
We have done a great job in unifying the world against us.
we are holding this hearing to define the problem, to put pressure on CMS to come up with--OK, we got the fact sheet.