Political Quotes

“Mr. Speaker, I move to suspend the rules and concur in the Senate amendment to the bill (H.R. 2142) to require the review of Government programs at least once every 5 years for purposes of assessing their performance and improving their operations, and to establish the Performance Improvement Council. The Clerk read the title of the bill. The text of the Senate amendment is as follows: Senate amendment: Strike out all after the enacting clause and insert: SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE; TABLE OF CONTENTS. (a) Short Title.--This Act may be cited as the ``GPRA Modernization Act of 2010''. (b) Table of Contents.--The table of contents for this Act is as follows: Sec. 1. Short title; table of contents. Sec. 2. Strategic planning amendments. Sec. 3. Performance planning amendments. Sec. 4. Performance reporting amendments. Sec. 5. Federal Government and agency priority goals. Sec. 6. Quarterly priority progress reviews and use of performance information. Sec. 7. Transparency of Federal Government programs, priority goals, and results. Sec. 8. Agency Chief Operating Officers. Sec. 9. Agency Performance Improvement Officers and the Performance Improvement Council. Sec. 10. Format of performance plans and reports. Sec. 11. Reducing duplicative and outdated agency reporting. Sec. 12. Performance management skills and competencies. Sec. 13. Technical and conforming amendments. Sec. 14. Implementation of this Act. Sec. 15. Congressional oversight and legislation. SEC. 2.…”