Rob Portman actually said...

We are spending more money on service-related contractors in many agencies than we are spending on Federal employees.

Assuming that contractors cost less and that the Federal employees cost more does not help this discussion.

In 2009, you guys started an insourcing initiative and the goal, as I understand it, was to replace 30,000 contractors with DOD civilians be...

Secretary Gates said in a speech that Defense agencies, quote, were not seeing the savings we had hoped for from insourcing.