Dan Burton: “the biggest industry in America is the Federal Government. It is bigger than Chrysler, it is bigger than General Motors…”

“the biggest industry in America is the Federal Government. It is bigger than Chrysler, it is bigger than General Motors, it is bigger than any company, Big Blue; and yet we have agencies that cannot talk to each other through their computer technology. It is an absolute tragedy. Billions and billions of dollars of taxpayer money is wasted because this lack of communication takes place on a daily basis, and that is why we ought to use the examples of the private sector in the Federal Government. Now, how do you do that? The only way you can do that is to take Federal employees who do not yet have that kind of knowledge and allow them to go to the private sector and learn the tricks of the trade, so to speak, so that they can bring that technology back to the Federal Government so we can coordinate our agencies to make sure this technology is used properly. If we do that, it is going to streamline it, it is going to make the government more efficient for every American, and it is going to make sure it is going to save us a lot of money.”