Muchneeded reforms for this program that last year supported almost 11 million americans with 137 billion of american taxpayer money. I have closed with one remark. If you work somewhere in the federal government today, i would hope if youre seeing fraud, if youre seeing manipulation, if youre seeing things that are not right, that you will follow the lead of these four courageous women in bringing it to the attention of senator levins subcommittee, permanent subcommittee on investigations or my office. With that, senator carper, i thank you. Thank you so much. Im going to go out of order to ask senator levin who chairs the subcommittee under which this investigation has taken place and ask him just to make a statement. I will make a short statement after that. Then well turn to our witnesses. Senator levin . Thank you very much, senator carper and first let me commend senator coburn for his leadership and his and his staffs hard work in uncovering the abuses that are the subject of to