Walter B. Jones: “That is why I sincerely appreciate your joining me in this effort to find out what we can do to help correct a very bad…”

“That is why I sincerely appreciate your joining me in this effort to find out what we can do to help correct a very bad situation. I am like you. I do not know why we do not have oversight over situations like this, because we are talking about the taxpayers' money. We are talking about providing good health plans for our military and our retirees, and we all know that we are talking about the taxpayers' money, and you said again, I keep using this, $1.7 billion contract. Let me share this also with the gentleman from Georgia [Mr. Norwood] and also those that might be watching. This is a quote from, again, a news article. I want you to know that I give credit to the news article, because these are not my words but the words of someone else. This has to do with a statement by a gentleman named Jeff Album, spokesman for Delta Dental. I would like to share this with you. "But Onslow County is not alone. There are other counties across the country around military bases without dentists signed up with UCCI," which again is United Concordia, said Jeff Album, spokesman for Delta Dental. Then I go further with his quote. "We believe the criteria specified for selection of a winner in the request for proposal did not match the criteria that seems to have been used in the selection of UCCI," Album said. And I further quote: "It appears DOD opted for the least expensive bid rather than best value." Let me read that again, and I want you to comment, if you will.…”