do they work >> they dwork.t if you have a fair balanced diet, you don't need to take any vitamins. that's a the big message. the proesh with vitamins they are not fda regulated. what's on the label much these bottles is not what you have in your vitamins. a new study shows a lot of elderly between the ages of 65 and 80 taking more medications and a lot of interaction between your vitamins and medications. treat your vitamins like a real drug. >> are regular vitamins -- >> if you're taking cumiden and fish oil that can increase your bleeding. vitamin e can increase prostate cancers. gummy ones are okay if you take one or two. if you can take a real tablet easier to digest. if you take a lot of these they can make you real toxic. >> the gumies. >> vitamin a, b, c. >> you going pop them like candy. >> that's right. >> the first place is to start is if you have a well balanceled diet you don't need vitamins. i might be testing you to see what your vitamin d level is a lot of people take vitamin d without knowing wh

president, it appears to me we're in a dwork and i ask unanimous consent that it be dispensed with. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. coats: mr. president, today marks my 38th edition of waste of the week with our nation $19 trillion in debt. i'm going to continue to come to the senate floor every week the senate is in session to highlight verified and documented expense examples of waste, fraud and abuse. i turn to organizations, nonpartisan organizations like the government accountability office and other reports that indicate thankfully somebody's looking into how we run this government and coming up with examples of how we can run it better, letting the american people know that we're not wisely and carefully spending their taxpayer dollars and hopefully taking remedial action. last year i detailed an investigation by the nonpartisan government accountability offi office, so-called g.a.o., that discovered that fraudulent applications are being accepted by healthcare.gov. that's the government's health care web site for choosing obamacare plans on the federal exchange