Kendra S. Horn: “I think as the gentleman from Ohio knows and certainly as the gentlewoman from New York (Mrs. Maloney) knows, the…”

“I think as the gentleman from Ohio knows and certainly as the gentlewoman from New York (Mrs. Maloney) knows, the ranking member, the aim of our committee over time is to assure that the Federal Government not only has audits but also that the Federal Government can measure the effectiveness of its programs which has to be basic when the President has to make a determination between do I keep this program or do I reduce or do I add to it, and the same decision has to be made by the Congress. There is only one State in the union that has a system like that, that is the State of Oregon with its benchmarking of programs. There are only two countries in the world that have a fiscal system such as that, and that is Australia and New Zealand. We have a lot to learn from both of them. Over the last 3 years, we have been holding various hearings on how this could be done so that the program analysis becomes part of the monetary cost of the particular unit of program. That is what is important if we really want to make sure that the taxpayer dollars are not wasted. I do not think there is a person in this Chamber that wants to waste taxpayer dollars.”