I want to give you an opportunity, in fairness...
But they found it in your documentation system. They found it by a simple database search. Why could you not have found ...
This Subcommittee has spent a lot of time on contracting--on contracting officer representatives (CORs), and this was an...
The contractor that was hired had really never had a contract with EPA; is that not correct?
This is exactly the kind of thing that allows the public to get deep-rooted cynicism about the way we spend money.
If we now acknowledge at the end of the hearing that mistakes were made, then I have yet to see where anyone was held ac...
Well, because it was an extension of an existing contract that came under the 100,000, it stayed within the parameters o...
My concern, because we are talking about the confidence of the public in what we do, is that we can sure make mistakes, ...
I do not think you issued it.
And you are telling me that you are in the middle of an Inspector General investigation and a letter turns up that you h...
This comes to accountability. This comes to Federal employees that have responsibilities and expertise, and they are pai...
So, you think it would be typical and good contracting practice to allow the contractor to write the work that was going...
I believe it was the day after the IG investigation was requested by Senator Bond.
And why was the EPA asking a contractor to write a scope of work for the GSA?
I commend the Chairman for her investigations here, as well as the work she has done with Senator Roy Blunt and former S...
It is time for us to, again, ensure that money is being spent wisely and effectively and that effective oversight does o...
I commend the Subcommittee for its past work and Chairman McCaskill for her dedication to eliminating waste, fraud, abus...
Effective oversight is crucial with government contracts.
