Political Quotes

“Mr. President, I am pleased to join Senators Carper, Warner, Collins, Lieberman, and Voinovich in introducing the GPRA Modernization Act of 2010. As an original cosponsor of the Government Performance and Results Act of 1993, often referred to as GPRA or the Results Act, I believe the time has come to refine and enhance this landmark bill. President Obama, in his inaugural address, observed: The question we ask today is not whether our government is too big or too small but whether it works. This question captures the essence of what the Results Act seeks to achieve. While the original Results Act made significant progress in encouraging agencies to develop a results-oriented culture, it is time to modernize GPRA. Several long-standing challenges hinder agency efforts to answer this critical question. Our legislation is a bipartisan effort to empower agencies to overcome these challenges and better evaluate how to use taxpayer dollars in the most efficient and effective way possible. Prior to 1993, Congress had never enacted a statutory framework for strategic planning, goal setting, or performance measurement. According to the U.S. Government Accountability Office, before GPRA, few agencies had results-oriented performance information to manage or make strategic policy decisions.…”