To further strengthen the protections that we have put in place to guard against fraud and abuse, we are asking that agencies operate under pre-hurricane levels unless they can justify to us that there are exceptional circumstances.

The PFA does not support HR 2324 because of the current fraud and abuse with the TSB and because of the lack of qualified-provider language in dispensing devices under the TSB.

The bottom line ... is that weak or nonexistent controls leave the government vulnerable to substantial fraud and abuse.

Investors were looking to President Bush to throw them a life-raft in a sea of accounting fraud and abuse. Instead, the president threw them a pair of cement shoes,

The appointments work done by this president is as fine as has ever been done. And I believe that Mike Brown was properly selected to be the head of FEMA. He had served really well as the general counsel of FEMA. He served unbelievably well for two years as the head of FEMA.

The tone is wrong. The tone is bad.