I think that would mean that there is an assumption that the government can always negotiate for volume discounts unless...
So it is called a fixed-price contract, but really, it is anything but.
you raised the issue of transparency and the Attorney General believes that is exactly the problem with this practice, b...
What other investigations do you think we can be doing from this Subcommittee, or what legislative fixes could we do tha...
what is the excuse? Is the excuse the accounting issue?
I mean, if, in fact, they were not getting the extra plus-up by going to the big guys, then we really would, pardon the ...
In this time of belt-tightening, we need to be more careful than ever to ensure that taxpayer dollars are not being wast...
So I am going to work on figuring out how we can remove bureaucratic red tape to get more capital out to my small busine...
I think being able to solve some of our relations between employers and employees should be a democratic process.
We are going to try to get an accounting of the retention of rebates by the contractors and an understanding of the poli...
But we could fix that legislatively. We could say, if the flow of dollars are Federal dollars, then any agents that are ...
Transparency.
I think all of the companies that are allowing themselves to be manipulated in order to plus-up these contractors should...
I cannot imagine that we could not do that. It seems like, to me, that is much more logical than a lot of the handcuffs ...
We don't want the FAA to become the Sky IRS, a collection bureaucracy that is focused on billing agents, collection agen...
I think it is going to hinder us, hinder us considerably.
So the vendors would probably be on our side?
One of the things that is concerning to me is the fact that all banks, credit unions, thrifts, what have you, they have ...
