Henry Waxman: The Watch Dog of the Taxpayers
John AmatoWAXMAN: It seems to me our top priority as the chief investigative and oversight committee is to make sure that taxpayers’ funds are no being wasted, that there’s no fraud and abuse. These are the taxpayers’ dollars, and what we’ve seen so far in Iraq, according to the government’s own auditors, is billions of dollars that have gone to waste and corruption and graft. We’re going to look into that more carefully. Only a small part of the money spent in Iraq has been audited, but what we’ve seen is very, very frightening. And that’s not only a problem in Iraq. When we look at the spending on homeland security, when we look at the spending on Hurricane Katrina, we see the same pattern of hiring big contractors, having them overcharge for the work they do. We’ve got to be the watchdog for the taxpayers.
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