Sheldon Whitehouse actually said...
I think this is exactly the sort of hearing that we envisioned when I asked Chairman Conrad to set up this Task Force on Government Performance for the purpose of trying to better evaluate Government performance, efficiency savings, ultimately toward the goal of, I hope, being able to put an efficiency number into our budgets in the future and hold administrations to account to try to achieve those efficiency savings.
Context
Whitehouse emphasizes the importance of evaluating government efficiency and accountability.
07/11/2010