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Tom Carper
@tomcarper· Democratic · DE· May 23, 2012

The role of government is to do for the people what they cannot do for themselves.

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Tom Carper
@tomcarper· Democratic · DE· May 23, 2012

Thank you, Chairman Carper, for this opportunity to appear before you today.

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Tom Carper
@tomcarper· Democratic · DE· May 23, 2012

We have found the car. We are in the car. We have the ignition on. We turn on the radio, have some good music, and now we are heading down the road.

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Tom Carper
@tomcarper· Democratic · DE· May 23, 2012

Thanks so much for your testimony. Thanks for your presence and the work that you all are doing in Delaware too.

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Tom Carper
@tomcarper· Democratic · DE· May 23, 2012

All right. Good. Thanks for that commonsense advice.

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Tom Carper
@tomcarper· Democratic · DE· May 23, 2012

I like that--enabling the mission of government.

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Tom Carper
@tomcarper· Democratic · DE· May 23, 2012

I am struck by as I go home, and even around the country, when I run into people who said, well, we saw a hearing that you were holding with others of your colleagues about how to get better results for less money.

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Tom Carper
@tomcarper· Democratic · DE· May 23, 2012

CGI applauds the Administration and congressional initiatives in not only eliminating wasteful IT spending but also to encourage Federal agency investment in the new technologies.

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Tom Carper
@tomcarper· Democratic · DE· May 23, 2012

We are the stewards and champions of privacy and security for American citizens.

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Tom Carper
@tomcarper· Democratic · DE· May 23, 2012

The deficit ballooned a couple of years ago to about 1.5 trillion, and we have been reining it back in.

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Tom Carper
@tomcarper· Democratic · DE· May 23, 2012

I think we have produced amazing value in that delta, I think, in the past 3 years by innovating with less.

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Tom Carper
@tomcarper· Democratic · DE· May 23, 2012

We built an IT infrastructure that is bloated, inefficient, and actually makes it more difficult sometimes for the government to serve its citizens.

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Tom Carper
@tomcarper· Democratic · DE· May 23, 2012

I think accountability in the private sector is much stronger.

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Tom Carper
@tomcarper· Democratic · DE· May 23, 2012

As it turns out, with the kind of budget deficits we have today, it is hard to believe that we had three balanced budgets in a row in 1999, 2000 and 2001.

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Tom Carper
@tomcarper· Democratic · DE· May 23, 2012

One of the benefits that flows from this, we have found, is not just recovering some of the money that has been misspent or overspent, but we actually get good ideas for how not to make those same mistakes, especially on health care, like…

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Tom Carper
@tomcarper· Democratic · DE· May 23, 2012

If you were in our shoes, if you were sitting up here and you were serving your State in the U.S. Senate and you were on this Committee, or Subcommittee, what would you do differently, more of or less of, to make sure that the Legislative…

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