Political Quotes

“this rule fails to make in order a number of important amendments needed to bring about greater accountability in the Executive Office of the President. For that reason I must oppose the rule and urge its defeat. For the past 18 months, as the ranking Republican on the Committee on Government Operations, I have seen first-hand the numerous management problems at the White House. Let me mention just a few: The White House argued that travel office employees were fired for gross mismanagement, but the only gross mismanagement was the way the White House handled the matter; in an attempt to convince Americans that unanswered phone calls and busy signals were not the result of mismanagement, the White House spent $27 million on a new phone system. But they violated the Competition in Contracting Act by limiting bids for the job; last June, the General Accounting Office found that the White House mismanaged the purchase of a computer system by failing to follow proper procurement procedures; 14 months into the Clinton administration, the White House admitted that more than 100 staffers lacked security clearances and one-third of the 1,044 employees did not have permanent passes. Talk about mismanagement; finally, the White House further mismanaged personnel by allowing numerous employees to double-dip, receiving double salary payments. Even more disquieting than these management shortcomings has been the attempt by the administration to cover them up.”