Daniel Meuser

Mr. Speaker, Thanks · 10 wordsI thank the gentlewoman, Michelle Fischbach, for her leadership here.Thanks Positioning · 83 wordsWow, we have heard gaslighting on this floor before, but here, somehow or another, pardons have anything to do with fighting fraud? That is the excuse to not help us fight fraud, which, of course, nothing was done before.Unearned certainty By the way, Mr. Speaker, I don’t recall hearing about Hunter Biden and others receiving pardons from their father, ¹and also pardons given to those who weren’t even accused of crimes but could be one day. I don’t remember any of that being raised.PositioningOff point Claims · 57 wordsI rise in support of this rule, which would allow the House to consider two important pieces of legislation that improve the Federal Government’s ability to combat taxpayer fraud. You would think that this would be something that would be bipartisan, combating taxpayer fraud, which is in excess of $254 billion that we have uncovered so far.² Positioning · 35 wordsIf we have to do it on our own, we will, Mr. Speaker, False choicebecause that is what we are about. We are about straightening things out, correcting all the wrongs, particularly the last 4 years.PositioningOff point Procedure · 23 wordsThis is a big part of it. The Task Force to Eliminate Fraud has uncovered, ³as I said, $245 billion in taxpayer fraud.⁴Procedure Claims · 7 wordsWe have seen it in Los Angeles. Anecdote · 55 wordsI heard this morning in a CMS meeting that the level of hospice fraud that existed was in the multibillions.⁵ By the way, the 900 or so hospices that were shut down, not one of them called to complain that they were being shut down, that they couldn’t serve their so-called providers anymore.⁶ Guess what.Anecdote Positioning · 60 wordsThis is under the jurisdiction of Democrat leadership that this is all occurring. Nothing was done on fraud for 4 years during the Biden administration, during the Pelosi reign, during the time when these gentlemen and others had the gavels. What kind of nonsense is this? We are calling on pardons as a reason not to be going after fraud?PositioningOff point Claims · 24 wordsBy the way, I have constituents having fraud committed on them. We have fraud in Philadelphia.⁷ We have fraud in Minneapolis, the learning center.⁸ The question · 13 wordsHas anybody come out on the other side and denounced that, Mr. Speaker? Positioning · 3 wordsThis is outrageous.PositioningOff point Claims · 33 wordsMy Republican colleagues and I have been fighting taxpayer fraud as a top priority. We have introduced legislation to establish an overpayment czar to help State-level fraud prevention.⁹ We have supported commonsense reform. Mr. Speaker, The ask · 8 wordsI urge my colleagues to support this rule.