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I think every Member of this Committee supports OMB's initiative and effort and wants it to succeed.

We need to go small. That is the big difference between government and the private sector.

We try to do oversight. We try to do good oversight, not 'gotcha' oversight, but constructive oversight.

What I do not want is for us, all of us, to lose focus on a good set of initiatives that are in place.

We are wasting more money now than we did back then on IT.

This is not an easy thing to do. It is a hard thing to do.

We reported a bill, the Federal Data Center Consolidation Act... to enhance the consolidation initiative and improve the quality of data.

Some day, I would just love it if we held a hearing and the private sector shows up on these IT projects and says, we could really learn a lot from the government and maybe we could mentor them, or school them.

We are going to try to get it hotlined and passed by unanimous consent, our data center legislation.

One of the adages with respect to leadership is, do not just do as I say, do as I do.

This is a very real threat. We have issues of jurisdiction, of funding, of workforce.