Until we have a solid growth in employment that is sustainable and recognized by people, not here and on Wall Street but...
But for the thousands and thousands of unemployed Rhode Islanders, nothing has changed much and we have to keep our eyes...
There is always the danger in the contracting oversight world of what I call and what economists have for a long time ca...
I think this is exactly the sort of hearing that we envisioned when I asked Chairman Conrad to set up this Task Force on...
I am hoping that the process that we undertake through this task force will ultimately lead to having some confidence to...
we are well over half a trillion dollars a year going down this pipe, so it is worth making sure we can track it to the ...
Thank you, Senator Warner, and thank you both for your testimony.
The Commission on Wartime Contracting in Iraq and Afghanistan report identified in particular KBR, which collected nearl...
Clearly, Government contracting is an important area because, as you have pointed out, the extent of it and the hundreds...
You are the Solicitor General of the United States, the lawyer for the United States before the Supreme Court.
the courts should defer to Congressional fact finding
Thank you for our time together. I wish you well. And I appreciate how well and with what good humor and how openly you ...
I understand that. That was the holding of the Court. But my focus is on this particular finding of fact that they made,...
And in that particular case, the institution of the jury lost, and the predictability for corporations won.
independent expenditures, including those made by corporations, do not give rise to corruption or the appearance of corr...
What is interesting, though, is that it threw out 96 years of precedent, and it did so 5-4.
So it concerns me that it is there, and I would hope that if you get to the Court you are more restrained in terms of ma...
Should there be any desire or motivation on the part of that group of five to reach their scope a little bit more broadl...
