Sean Patrick Maloney: “I join him and the gentleman from Michigan in a bipartisan effort to uphold the laws of our country in terms of…”

“I join him and the gentleman from Michigan in a bipartisan effort to uphold the laws of our country in terms of procurement which were put in place for better government oversight, to save taxpayers' dollars, and to be sure that there is full and open competition for the billions of dollars that this government spends in contracts. I would hardly call competitive bidding and allowing people to compete for the right to provide services at the best price redtape. I would call that, saving taxpayers' dollars, good government and what should be done in this Congress. The fact that the INS is one of the worst-managed systems, and it has been called by their own IG, an information system that has a top management challenge. The fact that it is poorly managed is more of a reason that we should have these safeguards that the gentleman before me mentioned. For billion-dollar, multimillion-dollar contracts, I would say regular order, competitive bidding, and let us follow the laws of this country.”