Albert Russell Wynn: “I want to make a few brief points that I have to emphasize. One, no existing contracts will be affected by this…”

“I want to make a few brief points that I have to emphasize. One, no existing contracts will be affected by this amendment; two, if this work is not currently being done by Federal employees and is in fact being outsourced and competed among private sector companies, that will continue. So those concerns probably do not apply. Now, what we are saying in this amendment is simply this: follow existing law. Existing law, the FAIR Act, says there shall be competition, private-public competition or private-private competition. In the case of Federal employees who are doing a good job, they ought to have the right to compete to keep their jobs, to do the work and give the taxpayer best value. If the private sector company can do it better in terms of value and costs, then the private sector would get the contract. Finally, the suggestion has been made that since we are having a GAO study, we do not need this amendment. I reiterate, this is the law. We ought to follow it.”