Political Quotes

“Mr. President, I rise today in support of H.R. 4904, the Making Electronic Government Accountable By Yielding Tangible Efficiencies Act of 2016, and that is an acronym for the MEGABYTE Act. H.R. 4904 is the House companion to a piece of legislation Senator Gary Peters and I introduced, S. 2340. I would like to thank Senator Peters for being the lead cosponsor of the Senate version of the MEGABYTE Act and thank Senator Thad Cochran for cosponsoring it. S. 2340 passed the Senate by voice vote last week. My friends in the House of Representatives--Representative Matt Cartwright, Representative Will Hurd, Representative Steve Russell, and Representative Elijah Cummings--are the lead sponsors of H.R. 4904. It passed the House on June 7, 2016, by a vote of 366 to 0. The MEGABYTE Act reforms the Federal Government's management of information technology software licensing. The nonpartisan Government Accountability Office, or the GAO, found that implementing oversight and management policies of Federal software licenses saved a single agency 181 million taxpayer dollars per year. If implemented, the MEGABYTE Act could yield billions in savings across the Federal Government. Now, the Federal Government spends $82 billion a year on information technology. In 2015, for example, for the second year in a row, GAO listed IT software license management as a top priority for its annual duplication report.…”