Political Quotes

“I am proud to be a cosponsor and strong supporter of the amendment. The attempt to set quotas to contract out an arbitrary number achieves nothing. It is bad policy, and I would like to point out some of the misconceptions with regard to the plan: one, that the Federal employee workforce is enormous; and, two, that contracting out immediately makes the government a more efficient, cost-effective workforce. Those are both patently untrue. Do Members know what the size of the Federal Government was in 1964? It was roughly 1.8 million workers. Do Members know what the size of the Federal work force is today? It is roughly 1.8 million employees. Those individuals railing against big government do not know the facts. If there is a big government problem, it certainly is not due to number of employees. The real growth of government has come through expansion of grants, contracts and entitlements. Each year the Federal Government doles out $120 billion to contractors compared to $108 billion in salaries and benefits for the Federal workforce.”