Political Quotes

“Mr. President, today, as Chairman of the Subcommittee on Federal Financial Management, Government Information, Federal Services, and International Security, I offer a piece of legislation, along with my distinguished colleagues Senators Warner, Akaka, Lieberman, Collins and Voinovich, that I believe will lead us on a path to a more effective and efficient federal government. It has been more than 17 years since Congress passed the Government Performance and Results Act, GPRA, to help us better manage our finite resources and improve the effectiveness and delivery of Federal programs. Since that time, agencies across the federal government have developed and implemented strategic plans and have routinely generated a tremendous amount of performance data. The question is--have Federal agencies actually used their performance data to get better results? Producing information does not by itself improve performance and experts from both sides of the aisle agree that the solutions developed in 1993 have not worked. The American people deserve--and our fiscal challenges demand--better results. The GPRA Modernization Act of 2010 which I offer today aims to assist and motivate--Federal agencies to put away the stacks of reports that no one reads and actually start to think how we can improve the effectiveness, efficiency and transparency of our Government.…”