Tom Coburn actually said...

It is the responsibility of each individual agency to make sure they comply with that.

Why should you automate it? Why shouldn't you force your contractors to automate it and present it to you?

A large proportion of our officers that we either contract or have are not trained.

To me this is not a political issue. This is an issue of us failing to do our job in a proper way when it comes to security clearances.