Bob Bennett

You want to go where your account is important.

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

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

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

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.

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

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 believe there is something this Subcommittee can do that will save our government more money, sooner, than anything else you possibly could do.

Senator Bennett, this is one of the biggest obstacles that small business concerns have to overcome in competition.

The one thing that I hear most often and I think my colleagues hear most often as they talk about where we are right now, a constant, constant complaint that banks aren't lending.

I think I am hearing implementation of high road would make many companies less competitive for government contracts.

The solution I have tried to peddle within the Congress, Madam Chairman, has been to switch us to a 2-year budget instead of a 1-year budget.

I want to fund movement, movements toward the kinds of developments that are long term and become sustaining.

our country sits in the leadership position today, and it really is ours to lose.

We need to be able to deploy a recharging infrastructure so that the American public is confident they can get to point A from point B without running out of power.

We are so unbelievably dependent. That is not healthy for our country, for our future.

The virtue of the plug-in is that when you have utility power available, it's probably cheaper and more efficient to buy it from a utility.

To date, we have invested more than $1 billion on electric vehicle development, including $700 million to develop and manufacture the Chevrolet Volt extended-range EV.

It is much more preferable to me that we would decide, here's the kind of future we want, and here are the things that we need to do to achieve that future.

This discussion of moving toward an electric drive vehicle future is timely and critically important for our country.

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.

I am a First Amendment hawk.

The necessity for historic preservation is there and we have to keep using it even as we are preserving a building that is as old as this one.

Somehow the goal of taking big money out of politics was not achieved by passing that law.

This has been a three year job interview.