If you make a promise, you are responsible for your own promise, ... Unfortunately, there are a few ... bad apples who have abused loopholes ... to avoid funding pensions in a way that shows they are responsible for their own promises.

Keeping that promise this year made our job much more difficult, ... I don't see how you're going to be able to have that rule of thumb three years from now.

We should include responsible spending language in additional hurricane relief legislation that we will pass. This way, we can make sure every relief worker can do what's necessary, just like they did after 9/11, without increasing the risks and opportunities for abusive spending.

There's a blunder a month and more like recently a blunder a week,

Even documented pledges by FBI bureaucrats to write threat assessments were never kept, and no one was held accountable,

Complacency by the watchdogs hurts both taxpayers and beneficiaries.