Mike Levin: “What we are dealing with is a historic use of no-bid contracts, where billions of dollars have been spent. There is good…”

“What we are dealing with is a historic use of no-bid contracts, where billions of dollars have been spent. There is good evidence they have been misspent in many ways, and there is a huge amount of waste and abuse. I agree with my good friend from Virginia we do have committees that could look into this matter and could focus on this matter. The agendas of those committees are left basically to the chairmen of those committees. If the chairmen of those committees choose to focus their energies in other places--and I don't quarrel with the places they look--it does not mean the Senate should not express its opinion on the need to focus on these abuses, these excesses, this expenditure of billions of dollars on no-bid contracts. Therefore, I support the Dorgan amendment.”