host: you are on the air with beryl davis.aller: i have one area of what i consider to be fraud that is very difficult. i happen to work in real- estate and i go to houses where people are receiving assistance. they get appliances. appliances that are supplied to these people, washer and dri er, it was like $205,000 for a washer and dryer is applied to these people on assistance. the average american cannot afford that. it is just throughout the whole system like that. people administering these programs have as the philosophy that we are going to get as much money as we can and they over do it on anything. guest: that is a very difficult question to answer, but i would like to take it to a much higher level. we are talking about stewardship of taxpayer dollars. a lot of questions, your question, other questions that have come in, address that need. the government accountability office is looking carefully at that. we've done many reports over several years with the goal of encouraging agencies to reduce and eliminate improper

host: you are on the air with beryl davis. caller: i have one area of what i consider to be fraud that is very difficult. i happen to work in real- estate and i go to houses where people are receiving assistance. they get appliances. appliances that are supplied to these people, washer and dri er, it was like $205,000 for a washer and dryer is applied to these people on assistance. the average american cannot afford that. it is just throughout the whole system like that. people administering these programs have as the philosophy that we are going to get as much money as we can and they over do it on anything. guest: that is a very difficult question to answer, but i would like to take it to a much higher level. we are talking about stewardship of taxpayer dollars. a lot of questions, your question, other questions that have come in, address that need. the government accountability office is looking carefully at that. we've done many reports over several years with the goal of encouraging agencies to reduce and eliminate improp

host: you are on the air with beryl davis.aller: i have one area of what i consider to be fraud that is very difficult. i happen to work in real- estate and i go to houses where people are receiving assistance. they get appliances. appliances that are supplied to these people, washer and dri er, it was like $205,000 for a washer and dryer is applied to these people on assistance. the average american cannot afford that. it is just throughout the whole system like that. people administering these programs have as the philosophy that we are going to get as much money as we can and they over do it on anything. guest: that is a very difficult question to answer, but i would like to take it to a much higher level. we are talking about stewardship of taxpayer dollars. a lot of questions, your question, other questions that have come in, address that need. the government accountability office is looking carefully at that. we've done many reports over several years with the goal of encouraging agencies to reduce and eliminate improper

at :45, beryl davis, the financial management director at the government accountability office will be on to discuss the new practices to reduce improper payments. washington journal live monday at 7:00 a.m. eastern on c-span. >> with the michigan primary election two days away, republican presidential candidate ron paul was in the small town of hudsonville in the western part of the state. the texas representative spoke with small business owners at this hour and five-minute event. >> before we begin, i want to go over our campaign, election day in two days, there are things we need to know. i want to be sure. i know you've heard about delegates and the media is saying straw votes don't matter but we are bound by the primary in the first round of the general election so we need to win the primary on tuesday. we need to make sure every reason paul supporter out there . make a list of the people you know, the people you went to high school with, people you went to college with, everybody. call them, vote to -- tell them to vote for ron paul on tuesday if they say yes, you make sure they

at 8:45, beryl davis, at the government accountability office will be on to discuss implementing reductionper payments. "the wallstreet journal" -- "washington journal" live this morning at 7:00 eastern. >> this collects the power and then you can charge your iphone, cell phone, all that stuff directly. >> what you are seeing here on this ship, you're actually seeing an area that is 165 million wells. each of which can sequence a small piece. >> the technology itself is using two cameras. one that looks out, and one that looks in the eyes. so we know exactly the person is interested in. >> tonight on "the communicators," a fifth and final visit to the consumer electronics show in las vegas. at 8:00 p.m. eastern on c-span2. >> republican presidential candidate ron paul was campaigning in michigan on sunday ahead of the state's primary on tuesday. following an event in hudson bill, he spoke with reporters for about chemical -- for about 10 minutes. >> we will take questions. >> hello. >> you talked about cutting a trillion dollars out of the budget. what do you cuts in order to not spend tha