Thank you for your presentation. In respect of your time, we will try to make sure each of us takes 5 or 6 minutes in our question period.
Governor, you tried this model out at the city level where you could get your arms around it. You grew it to the State level.
One of the things we are hoping, working with President Obama's administration, is with a legislative partner we can institutionalize this.
Thank you, Executive Leggett.
But it has got to have that relentless----
I want to particularly thank Senator Cardin. He is an important member of both the Senate Budget Committee and the Government Performance Ta...
I do think he has a point in terms of at some level in oversight a 535-member board, which in effect the Federal Government has with both th...
As Senator Warner mentioned, very few public problems can be isolated to a particular department.
I think--I can only speak for my State--a lot of folks did not understand what that act involved, did not understand it was the third larges...
We actually did have Michael Barber come in and talk to us about the Delivery Unit model from the U.K.
Well, Governor, thank you very much. You have been very generous with your time, and congratulations on this 10-year experiment.
Thank you again for your good work and thank you for appearing before us today.
It would seem to me... we are going to see them again anytime soon.
There really is not that equivalent at the Federal level, and I think that has been one of the challenges.
There is governmental oversight, but there is not a governmental efficiency metrics performance group.
You have to be relentless, that none of this is easy, none of this comes quickly.
I urge you to support that request.
the worst example of penny-wise, pound-foolish is not investing in the Federal contracting oversight work force