But secondly, it is continuing a trend we have in this country of encouraging the crooks in society to take advantage of the federal government and get wildly rich. We are in this bill, going to make it a much more difficult thing and require the government to look into this matter and into the students who are getting these aid payments so things in one more program don't wind up completely out of control. And I strongly encourage this body to pare back on any of these programs that are fraught with fraud. (14:30–14:48)
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