Steve Lynch: “I rise in support of the amendment offered by my friend and colleague, Mr. Sarbanes of Maryland. This amendment ensures…”

“I rise in support of the amendment offered by my friend and colleague, Mr. Sarbanes of Maryland. This amendment ensures due diligence on the part of Federal agencies by requiring cost comparisons before any work can be awarded to contractors at non-Department of Defense agencies. I just want to point out that this is what DOD is doing now, and those of us on the Oversight Committee, who saw the problems that were created by recklessly contracting out core government responsibilities in the Iraq reconstruction era, think this is a great idea. We think that this is an idea that will make sure that we do effective cost analysis and also measure the appropriateness of whether or not a core government's function should be contracted out to begin with.”