I fully support the Secretary's objectives in reducing the duplication, overhead, and excess in the Defense enterprise.
I do not believe there is anything DOD is doing that we cannot do better.
We'll continue to work closely with you to figure out ways we can continue to be the best military in the world with les...
It's like--it's just an added cost of doing business, as opposed to any kind of alignment of incentives.
I want to follow up on--first of all, just given that we can't--we don't have auditable financial statements, how are we...
I think the stronger that you all lead on trying to shut down programs that, in the long run, are going to cost money th...
I think that this is probably not the kind of zero-based review that he had envisioned when he used that terminology.
I think it'd be helpful for us to get top-line performance metrics, for the various departments, that you've developed.
Clearly, you see what's coming down the road. I mean, this is going to be an exercise in cutting the size and scope of t...
we have to wean ourselves off of this incredible explosion of contractors within DOD.
We think that you're cutting spending on service contracts by $1.3 billion this year.
I hope you will share my commitment today to avoid using gimmicks to get around the ban on earmarks.
I thought it took a lot of courage for Secretary Gates to go out as far as he did on the second engine.
Substantial savings will not be realized until DOD commits to spend only what is absolutely essential for the warfighter...
In my opinion, having looked at a lot of contracting work over the last 4 years since I've been here, way too often were...
I am so proud of our military. We do so many things well.
We, in Congress, hope that that is not the case.
Frankly, obviously, it's been a problem, writ large, because we can't even audit.
