Claire McCaskill

Well, you know the problems we have. I mean, it is just a mess.

I just want to tell you that the work you are doing is making a difference.

They are better, but we have a long way to go.

I mean, there is no way it can be less expensive, and we are going to drill down now on some of their bigger contracts, because there is no way it is less expensive.

While we have gotten better at tightening the screws on buying things, maybe other than hardware and software, we have not figured out the cost of contracting in terms of services.

We are basically paying to fight the very whistleblowers that are trying to save us money.

The absence of leadership in this office has been a source of great frustration to me.

This obviously is an important issue, just thinking about safety, security of data, all the things that those two individuals have done.

I think it is really important that you provide the guidance, and I will look forward to hearing from you about that.

This policy that you have at the Office of Federal Procurement to not allow senior executives or career civil servants to testify before Congress.

So it is with a sense of urgency that I welcome Ms. Rung here today.

I like an 83-year-old mother that jumps on the bus.

If you leave it up to these agencies, it is not going to happen.

I was troubled to learn that the Department has spent millions of dollars to reimburse contractors' litigation expenses at law firms charging thousands of dollars an hour in fighting whistleblowers at Hanford.

It has been almost 8 months since Joe Jordan, the previous OFPP Administrator, left the office.

I am willing to bet, before all the dust settles, that there is an upcharge to avoid the FAR.

Well, the one thing we are going to do is we are going to drill down on those large projects and we are going to look at the contracting process.

But, they not have done business with the GSA, Mr.

But, there is no reason another Federal agency cannot provide that.

We cannot continue to have payrolls without a purpose.

To me, a duck is a duck is a duck.

Part of me is proud, in a way, because you all have shown a private sector mentality.

I need a definitive answer about what, if any, private entities you are, in fact, archiving.

The question is whether or not you all are out harvesting documents in the private sector.

I did not realize that this was supposed to be a repository for private documents.