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

It was a system that was wide open to fraud. All you had to do was call FEMA on the telephone and lie, and you could get money. It was just a question of how many people were willing to make false statements.

There's a lot of heavy lifting required to put an effective fraud prevention system in place by this summer. It will take years. You need to have a mechanism in place and field test it. FEMA doesn't have one.

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.

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,