12 2 STA T .5 1 84CON C UR R E NT RESO L UT I ONS —J UNE 5 , 2 0 08 (1 1 )suf f ic i entr es o urces s h ou ldb e p ro v ided for the D ep a rt -m ent of Defense to do an a g gressive j ob of addressing as man y as possible of the 1 ,260 pending recommendations made by the G overnment A ccountability O ffice (GAO) over the last 7 years to improve practices at the Department of Defense, including investigation of the billions of dollars of obligations, disbursements and overcharges for w hich the Department of Defense cannot account
(12) savings from the actions recommended in paragraphs ( 9 ) and (11) of this section should be used to fund the priorities identified in paragraphs ( 3 ) through ( 8 ); (13) the Department of Defense report to C ongress on its assessment of cold war weapons and progress on implementing GAO recommendations as outlined in paragraphs (10) and (11) by a time determined by the appropriate authori z ing commit- tees; and (1 4 ) the GAO report to the appropriate congressional committees by the end of the 110th Congress regarding the Department of Defense ’ s progress in implementing its audit recommendations .TI T LEV—S E N SE OF T H E SEN A TE AN DC ON GR ESS S ubti t le A—Se ns e of t h e Sen a te SEC.501 .SE N SE OFTH E SEN A TE R E G AR DI NG M EDICAID ADMINISTRA - TI V E REG UL ATIONS. (a) FIND IN GS . —T he S enate ma k es the following findings
(1) The M edicaid program provides essential health care and long-term care services to appro x imately 60,000,000 low- income children, pregnant women, parents, individuals with disabilities, and senior citizens. I t is a Federal guarantee that ensures the most vulnerable will have access to needed medical services. (2) Medicaid provides critical access to long-term care and other services for the elderly and individuals living with disabil- ities, and is the single largest provider of long-term care serv- ices. Medicaid also pays for personal care and other supportive services that are typically not provided by private health insur- ance or Medicare, but are necessary to enable individuals with spinal cord injuries, developmental disabilities, neurological degenerative diseases, serious and persistent mental illnesses, H I V/ AIDS, and other chronic conditions to remain in the community, to work, and to maintain independence. (3) Medicaid supplements the Medicare program for about 7, 5 00,000 low-income elderly or disabled Medicare beneficiaries, assisting them with their Medicare premiums and co-insurance, wrap-around benefits, and the costs of nursing home care that Medicare does not cover. The Medicaid program spends over $ 100,000,000,000 on uncovered Medicare services. (4) Medicaid provides health insurance for more than one- q uarter of America’s children and is the largest purchaser of maternity care, paying for more than one-third of all the births in the U nited States each year. Medicaid also provides
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