Mazie Hirono actually said...

"Congress can help strengthen recruitment and retention of the best talent by making the Defense Acquisition Workforce Development Fund (DAWDF) and the Expedited Hiring Authority (EHA) permanent."

"While Congress continues to urge the DOD to implement a common reporting application to support its annual inventory of services contracts, multiple challenges hinder these efforts."

"if we gave more authority to you three to manage your programs, would that relieve some of this burden and speed things up?"

"Acquisition Reform has been around as long as the Government has been procuring items."