Mr. Grothman. Yes. And in our committee, gentleman is recognized in our committee education and workforce as in so many other committees, We have discovered rampant fraud, in this case in federal financial aid programs as ghost students have been submitting applications for aid and getting the aid. And then the money just disappears because there is no real student. Imagine that. The first lesson we can take out of this and the program's here now, we're not going to get rid of it. (00:11–00:31)
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