Charles Skelton: “I also wish to compliment him on this amendment. Mr. Chairman, there was a lot of hard work that went into this, and…”

“I also wish to compliment him on this amendment. Mr. Chairman, there was a lot of hard work that went into this, and what it would do is add the Clean Contracting Act of 2008 to national security and defense. It compiles provisions that have already passed the House or would extend acquisition reforms passed for the Department of Defense in prior authorization bills in identical form. It also adds a couple of new measures. This Waxman amendment complements last year's bill in which we extended several of the reforms beyond the Department of Defense, and it also included several bills that have already passed, such as the Contractors and Federal Spending Accountability Act offered by Representative Maloney, the Close the Contractor Fraud Loophole Act offered by Mr. Welch, and the Government Contractor Accountability Act offered by Mr. Chris Murphy. There's a lot of hard work that goes into this. And we are always going to have difficulties in the acquisition process and the contracting process. But this is a major step in that direction, and I favor it.”