Dianne Feinstein actually said...

"I deeply regret what happened with respect to your nomination in the late 1990s."

"I don't believe that the promised savings of eliminating competition have materialized. The cost to the Government, to the taxpayer really has skyrocketed."

"I would think that would be your answer. And I would think that that would be satisfactory, because, after all, competition is the American basic demand for the accordance of a contract."

"The memo states, and let me read it. 'I direct the Air Force to aggressively introduce a competitive procurement environment in the EELV program by competing up to 14 cores with initial contract award..."