Sean Patrick Maloney: “Mr. Speaker, like much of the work that the Committee on Government Reform and Oversight has done this year on…”

“Mr. Speaker, like much of the work that the Committee on Government Reform and Oversight has done this year on legislation, this bill is a triumph of policy over partisanship. In the most partisan Congress in memory, this committee has passed several bills with broad bipartisan support that will collectively save the taxpayers billions of dollars and make Government work better for the average American taxpayer; the Paperwork Reduction Act, the debt collection bill which Treasury estimates will save taxpayers $10 billion over 5 years, the Federal Acquisition Reform Act, the Single Audit Act, and the General Accounting Office Act, to name a few. These achievements are a credit to the gentleman from Pennsylvania [Mr. Clinger] and the gentleman from California [Mr. Horn], who chairs the Subcommittee on Government Management Information and Technology on which I serve as the ranking member. They are also a credit to a ranking member of the full committee, the gentlewoman from Illinois [Mrs. Collins], whose leadership will be greatly missed when she retires at the end of the year. On this particular bill I want to thank the gentleman from Washington [Mr. Tate], for his active leadership and Senator Patrick Leahy who has been the driving force behind the bill in the Senate.”