Henry Waxman: “In 1993, we adopted this law. It is called the Government Performance and Results Act. It was proposed by the…”

“In 1993, we adopted this law. It is called the Government Performance and Results Act. It was proposed by the administration, the Clinton administration, under the guidance of the Vice President, who was trying to figure out how to reform government, make it work more efficiently. It received bipartisan support in the Congress. The law asked each agency to set up a plan, and that is what each agency has done. The General Accounting Office reviewed the plans, and they said they are workable, they are adequate, they are sufficient for the purposes intended. The Office of Management and Budget reviewed the plans. They said that some plans in some agencies are better than others, but by and large, they are doing a pretty good job. So what do we have today? A bill to throw out all the plans that were done and require that they all be redone by October. Now, the best thing it seems to me, if we want plans to be workable, is to work with the agencies to be sure their plans make sense, to work in partnership. Instead, what we have is a bill that is a partisan bill.”