Robert C. Byrd: “the uncertainty at the employee level as to how agency outsourcing will evolve is having a horrific effect on morale.”

to start--in an appropriations supplemental, a multiyear appropriations request, strikes me to be very, very strange.

I do not believe that we can overstate the importance or the difficulty of the challenge before the Congress.

I will also ensure that the OIG pursues aggressive oversight of contracting issues.

I fully agree and I compliment you and our ranking member.