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IN-RFormer senators
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…
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.
Well, I have no doubt your work has saved a lot of young people already.
Ms. Graves and the other panelists, we are grateful for your testimony here.
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.
What politicians in Washington put out as fact are not fact.
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…
Well, if I just added up what he indicated in his testimony, it was well in excess of $30 billion.
So you do not know where all your stuff is right now.
We have, if you count intelligence organizations, far in excess of $80 billion a year.
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.
My real concern is, as I said in my opening statement, how do we empower CIOs.
the vast majority of the agencies did use their CIO to do this
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?
Is part of the reason we are having turnover because we cannot compete in the IT field for CIOs?
We do not have real transparency and metrics on what we are doing.
