participation in this group and a sight to most this could easily fall into the category that it goes unpunished. whereat about a $33 billion company, 120,000 employees with about half of those sales enough of those employees outside the u.s. so i travel a lot and i go to a lot of converging regions. one of the things i wish that there is a strong hunger to make a difference, to work hard, to create the conditions for growth and to be especially competitive with developed economies. we face a tough problem as we all say today and i think it's important to recognize that it's one that does affect our global competitiveness. and while another student of history, i would like to build on senator conrad's comments because in the course of my career one of the things i have observed is that the root cause for failure in most institutions and whether that's government, business or organization is when they lose that hunger, when they lose that ability to coalesce politically to make tough decisions that will lead to progressive society institution. i do applaud the creation of this group and the willi

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participation in this group and a sight to most this could easily fall into the category that it goes unpunished about a $33 billion company, 120,000 employees with about half of those sales enough of those employees outside the u.s. so i travel a lot and i go to a lot of converging regions. one of the things i wish that there is a strong hunger to make a difference, to work hard, to create the conditions for growth and to be especially competitive with developed economies. we face a tough problem as we all say today and i think it's important to recognize that it's one that does affect our global competitiveness. and while another student of history, i would like to build on senator conrad's comments because in the course of my career one of the things i have observed is that the root cause for failure in most institutions and whether that's government, business or organization is when they lose that hunger, when they lose that ability to coalesce politically to make tough decisions that will lead to progressive society institution. i do applaud the creation of this group and the willingness of

in order to send a clear message that no act of terror will go unpunished. last year, i visited afghanistan as part of a congressional delegation to the regions. we received briefings from military and afghani political leaders. the question i asked of nearly everyone who would listen to us was where is osama bin laden and what are we doing to capture or kill this man? our recent success in killing and capturing his allies gives me appropriate steps to bring this murderer to justice. commander of nato forces recently confirmed that the military is trying to find and kill bin laden. i was pleased to hear mcchrystal confirm his commitment as he continues his excellent service in afghanistan. the strategy in afghanistan and iraq is two-pronged. in addition to ramping up our missions to capture and kill terrorists, we are placing a greater emphasis on preventing the recruitment of violent extremists and returning the countries to what they were in the past. i participated in a video conference with the third heavy brigade combat team in the 3rd infantry division

as long as health care fraud pays, and as long as it goes unpunished, our health care system will remain under seize with tremendous cost to the quality of health care provided in this country and to the nation's fiscal health. as secretary sebelius and i both said when we launched h.e.a.t. in 2009, you should expect to hear from us again on this subject. the american people expect results. and we are committed to delivering them. now, before i turn it over to secretary sebelius, i'd like to thank the civil division for its hard work on this case and it's antifraud efforts across all sectors. over the past 15 months the civil division in partnership with u.s. attorneys offices across the nation has recovered more than $5.7 billion in civil recoveries and criminal fines by uncovering fraud in a range of areas. i'd also like to think united states attorney michael levy of the eastern district of pennsylvania and his great office for their fine work in this case. and i need like to thank the partners who have made invaluable contributions to our effort. i would like to turn it over to secre