miller who is the inspector general of the united states general services administration. welcome back. and mr. jake wiens is the investigator for the project on government oversight, often called pogo. welcome back. pursuant to committee rules, i'd ask you to please rise and take the sworn oath and raise your right hands. do you solemnly swear or affirm the testimony you are about to give will be the truth the whole truth and nothing but the truth. let the record indicate all witnesses answered in the affirmative. please be seated. as i previously said, we're, unfortunately, today going to be on a very tight constraint because of votes. i will try to keep our folks to their five minutes. i'd ask you to try to stay to your five minutes, and i assure you we will stay as long as we can on a vote and if possible return as soon as possible. with that, we recognize miss fong for her opening statement. >> thank you, mr. chairman, ranking member cummings and members of the committee. it's a real privilege to be here today to represent the federal ig community which consists of 73

have the general service administration having a big party out at las vegas with hot tubs and -- and magicians and so forth. we've got no budget for three consecutive years in the united states senate. and what are we hearing from many of our leaders here in washington? well, we've got a problem, american people, we've got too big a debt; send us more money. send more money. we're not -- we don't have enough. we're borrowing 40 cents of every dollar we spend. send more money. i think the american people are tired of hearing that. i think they have a right to be tired of hearing that. until this country is willing to face up to save $10 million a day on this kind of manipulation that's been going on since 2007 at least and been raised by the inspector general since 2009, until those kind of things are stopped, i don't think they should send any more money to washington. we need -- we need to honor the money they're spending. so, mr. president, i thank the chair and would yield the floor. a senator: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from massachusetts. mr. brown: thank you, mr. president. i also ask consent that my military fellow, major jay rose, be granted fl