In fiscal 2009, the Federal Government spent over $536 billion on goods and services.

You want to go where your account is important.

the redistribution of wealth, rather the generation of value, is simply the wrong path to take in public procurement.

I hope you will also consider the discussion in my written statement about how the deficiencies and competition process are adversely affecting our small business concerns.

OMB is still Harry Truman's Bureau of the Budget, and just putting another name in it and another initial to its acronym does not mean that they spend very much time on management.

I think we have plowed most of the ground we need to plow.

I would anticipate that this would have a very chilling effect on small business trying to compete for Federal purchases.

Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman. My connection with the GPO goes back to the time when I chaired the Leg. Branch Subcommittee of the Appropriations Committee.

In November 1997, I requested that President Clinton appoint a Y2K czar.

I think he will do a superb job at the Commodity Futures Trading Commission.

Well, I keep going after the locus of the vision, and you have given us two agencies in OMB, both of which you are responsible for--the E-Government and the OFPP.