Political Quotes

“I appreciate the opportunity to speak to this amendment, and I want to thank the cosponsors: Representatives Hanabusa, Langevin, Loebsack, and Reyes. This amendment is designed to preserve current law with respect to the service contracts and outsourcing activity of the Department of Defense. Current law now has in place a requirement that before the Department of Defense can do more outsourcing, can do more privatization of service contracts, they have to do an inventory of the contracting activity that's already in place. And this makes perfect sense. This is really a good government proposition if you think about it. It's important enough that it was included in the 2010 Defense Authorization Act; so it is part of current law. Unfortunately, the proposed bill, the new Defense Authorization Act, would remove this requirement. And if you remove that requirement, you're really undermining the public's stake in making sure that government is functioning in an efficient manner.…”