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John Cornyn
@johncornyn· Republican · TX· Jun 10, 2013

Mr. President, we have been working on immigration reform ever since I came to the Senate about 10 years ago. I have sponsored legislation--most notably with the former Senator Jon Kyl in 2005-- called the Comprehensive Border Security and…

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Bob Casey
@bobcasey· Democratic · PA· Jun 10, 2013

One of the most inspirational parts of your testimony is that you have figured out a way to take what happened to you yesterday and inspire others for tomorrow.

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Bob Casey
@bobcasey· Democratic · PA· Jun 10, 2013

Well, I have no doubt your work has saved a lot of young people already.

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Bob Casey
@bobcasey· Democratic · PA· Jun 10, 2013

Ms. Graves and the other panelists, we are grateful for your testimony here.

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Bob Casey
@bobcasey· Democratic · PA· Jun 10, 2013

That is just wrong. It defies common sense, and that is right at the heart of our bill, to amend Federal law to make sure that, in every corner of the country, child victims of sex trafficking are considered as victims of abuse and neglect.

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Tom Coburn
@tomcoburn· Republican · OK· Jun 10, 2013

What politicians in Washington put out as fact are not fact.

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Tom Coburn
@tomcoburn· Republican · OK· Jun 10, 2013

One of our problems in purchasing IT--and the reason I asked about fixed-price contracting--is when you have contracting other than fixed price, what happens is either the person that is making the decision or the company that is not…

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Tom Coburn
@tomcoburn· Republican · OK· Jun 10, 2013

Well, if I just added up what he indicated in his testimony, it was well in excess of $30 billion.

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Tom Coburn
@tomcoburn· Republican · OK· Jun 10, 2013

So you do not know where all your stuff is right now.

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Tom Coburn
@tomcoburn· Republican · OK· Jun 10, 2013

We have, if you count intelligence organizations, far in excess of $80 billion a year.

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Tom Coburn
@tomcoburn· Republican · OK· Jun 10, 2013

One of the things that I have noticed, 3 years ago I outlined an Air Force program, an IT program, said we ought to cancel it. We did not cancel it. We canceled it this year and paid an $80 million cancellation fee.

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Tom Coburn
@tomcoburn· Republican · OK· Jun 10, 2013

My real concern is, as I said in my opening statement, how do we empower CIOs.

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Tom Coburn
@tomcoburn· Republican · OK· Jun 10, 2013

the vast majority of the agencies did use their CIO to do this

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Tom Coburn
@tomcoburn· Republican · OK· Jun 10, 2013

Is that something we should legislate on to give agencies more flexibility in terms of payments to be able to be competitive in the IT field?

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Tom Coburn
@tomcoburn· Republican · OK· Jun 10, 2013

Is part of the reason we are having turnover because we cannot compete in the IT field for CIOs?

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Tom Coburn
@tomcoburn· Republican · OK· Jun 10, 2013

We do not have real transparency and metrics on what we are doing.

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