Those are not two guys that I'd want to bunk up with.

If more members tried this, too, he believes they'd have a different attitude about spending.

I have three young kids getting ready for college. Are you kidding? I got real expenses at home.

Oh, yes.

You know, when you're there and you've got a big vote and everything's -- yes.

America lost one of its finest. Carlos Aragon, 19 years old, from Orem, Utah, was killed while serving as a Marine in the Helmand province. It's so sad when you hear these reports. Your hearts and your thoughts and your prayers go out to…

I see this as a pretty bad slope to start to slip down in terms of the way you use the contracting.

I believe there is something this Subcommittee can do that will save our government more money, sooner, than anything else you possibly could do.

I think we have plowed most of the ground we need to plow.

In fiscal 2009, the Federal Government spent over $536 billion on goods and services.

You want to go where your account is important.

the redistribution of wealth, rather the generation of value, is simply the wrong path to take in public procurement.

I hope you will also consider the discussion in my written statement about how the deficiencies and competition process are adversely affecting our small business concerns.

OMB is still Harry Truman's Bureau of the Budget, and just putting another name in it and another initial to its acronym does not mean that they spend very much time on management.

Senator Bennett, this is one of the biggest obstacles that small business concerns have to overcome in competition.

The solution I have tried to peddle within the Congress, Madam Chairman, has been to switch us to a 2-year budget instead of a 1-year budget.

I think I am hearing implementation of high road would make many companies less competitive for government contracts.

I would anticipate that this would have a very chilling effect on small business trying to compete for Federal purchases.