Jim Cooper actually said...
But immediately prior to the incident, your agency in its wisdom had given Babcock & Wilcox an excellent rating for its safeguards and security work, and they received their full $51 million incentive fee in fiscal year 2011, even though, as has been testified to, the cameras weren't working on a wholesale basis, took months and months to ever do repairs. Why do they get their entire incentive fee right prior to the incident?
Context
Cooper questions the rationale behind awarding a full incentive fee despite security failures.
02/27/2013