•      "Failure to extend this statute of limitations would mean that the thousands of criminals and international criminal organizations that perpetrated the greatest theft of American taxpayer dollars in history will never be brought to justice. Hundreds of billions of dollars – in one estimate as much as $400 billion – will be lost forever, and the working families that were victims of this crime will never see the benefits they were promised. Given the volume of existing cases currently under investigation, there is no reason that Congress should not act to ensure law enforcement stays on this beat and goes after these criminals. Taking them off the streets will not only ensure justice is done but will also help prevent those same crime organizations from being free to defraud the American taxpayer once again." Source: Rep. Jason Smith (Republican, Missouri, District 8), the sponsor of this bill

•      "I was just out in California, in Los Angeles, this week, and the fires are going there, and you are now seeing the same groups that stole at scale in California, $32.6 billion from the Unemployment Insurance Program; they’re now stealing from the disaster unemployment insurance, the disaster SNAP program. What these criminal groups do, and in particular China, Russia, Nigeria, Romania, is they use stolen information, some of it they collected directly…They have all that information, and they file claims on behalf of legitimate individuals in the afflicted areas and then they use that money for just terrible things. What I find incredibly frustrating…it’s the same groups doing the same thing…They use the money for horrible things, child trafficking. They use it for drugs in our communities, they use it for terrorism. I’d like to tell you that things are better today, but just watching what’s going on in California, seeing what happened in North Carolina, same groups, same playbook, stealing at scale." Source: Haywood Talcove, unemployment insurance expert, at a hearing with the House Ways & Means Committee