Harry Reid: “I recognize the Senator is not talking about contracting out, but the Senator mentioned contracting out, and I am an…”

“I recognize the Senator is not talking about contracting out, but the Senator mentioned contracting out, and I am an opponent of contracting out. I have seen what it has done to Federal installations in the State of Nevada where these outside contractors come in and say, we will give you a real good deal, and they give a contract this year, and the next year it goes up and up and up, where we would have been better off sticking with Government in the first place. So I thank the Senator from South Carolina very much for bringing to the attention of the American public the fact we have to federalize the safety of these airplanes and to also alert the American public that contracting out is not a panacea for good government.”