We are well intentioned. You are well intentioned. But we do not give people the authority to do what we ask them to do.

I am glad to hear those are the kind of decisions--we spent $500 million on a cost-plus contract that got us nothing on a handheld device for the Census, and nobody was held accountable for it, nobody got canned.

Which consumes resources.

I know, but the answer is you do not know-- I am not being critical.

We have, if you count intelligence organizations, far in excess of $80 billion a year.

I ask unanimous consent that my letter dated June 10, 2013, to the minority leader be printed in the Record. There being no objection, the material was ordered to be printed in the Record, as follows: U.S. Senate, Washington, DC, June 10…

The IT Dashboard is a farce.

We do not have real transparency and metrics on what we are doing.

Well, if I just added up what he indicated in his testimony, it was well in excess of $30 billion.

My real concern is, as I said in my opening statement, how do we empower CIOs.

Just as a little aside, the Federal Government's balance sheet has $86 trillion worth of liabilities, and all the assets in the United States of America are under $80 trillion.

One of our problems in purchasing IT--and the reason I asked about fixed-price contracting--is when you have contracting other than fixed price, what happens is either the person that is making the decision or the company that is not…

We did not come anywhere close to saving $24 billion for the American people.

Putting controls in and making people responsible and accountable is very important, and if the 2020 census is not done online, we ought to shoot ourselves.

We ought to be shooting for a whole lot more than that.

TechStat works, does it not? And the fact that DOD has no programs, everything is green for DOD, which means they are ducking having TechStat work on 20 to 30 programs that are in trouble.

the vast majority of the agencies did use their CIO to do this

If we could actually execute what GAO has outlined, you are talking $300 billion over the next 10 years.

So you do not know where all your stuff is right now.

We can no longer do these 5-year, $100 million---if I ever see those, those are like an instant TechStat trigger for me.

What politicians in Washington put out as fact are not fact.

I will tell you how I go through looking at the farm bill. I believe farmers ought to farm. I don't believe they ought to farm the government. I think you all, over the last few years, have done a good job changing that scenario. I believe…

I understand the objection. I have no ill will toward my chairman or ranking member for their objection. What this amendment does is during sequester, it prohibits performance awards in the Senior Executive Service. We are paying…

Let me make this point. If the Senator from Michigan wouldn't have objected, we could start voting tonight, we could vote tomorrow, we could get through those. Half of those will be pulled, and we would be almost to the same number of…

I would appreciate my time. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The Senator from Oklahoma has the floor.