Tom Coburn actually said...

"The whole idea of an audit is to have an audit to know what your holes are and your financial weaknesses and your management weaknesses, so you can change things."

"Well it is only cost-effective if you can have real savings or you can have real accuracy, which you do not have now."

"the decisionmaking process and the knowledge about how to buy IT--buying IT is hard. The other thing is, is you have to really know what you want before you order it, and I think some of the biggest p..."

"IT is one of the areas where we waste more money than any other area in the government, except the Pentagon when you take IT out."