Gerry Connolly

In the private sector, if something goes awry, the CEO says, pull the plug, we're going to move on, we'll try something different.

Because that was part of the problem FITARA was trying to address, that we had these long multi-year, multi-billion-dollar systems integration projects, and nobody felt empowered to pull the plug if the milestones weren't being met.

This kind of nativism, this kind of bigotry, frankly, has no place in the carrying out of the census.

It says persons. It doesn't say citizens. It says persons.

Your leadership has meant a great deal and has served our country well.

What Dr. Eastman is propounding sounds reasonable except it would fly in the face of over 200 years of practice.

Mr. Barsa, that does not answer the question. That begs the question.

Dollars going overseas are an opportunity cost because those are dollars not being invested in America and that has been proved false for decades.

Well, I have been working with AID for over 40 years and I have never seen it peopled with individuals who have those kinds of records and I think it is a shameful moment for AID.

I would hope that we could get a revised budget that is much more realistic in light of the pandemic.

We are focused on correctly, you know, the shortcomings of the contractor. But we also, as the Oversight Committee, need to focus on the shortcomings of the management of contracting and the contractor.

I think if they had fully implemented the recommendations in 2015 or 2016 they could have potentially mitigated a number of the problems we talked about today.

Yes, but now we are in a place where sustainment is the major problem.

So, that is what is unique. The stakes here are enormous. They affect all of our services.

IRS had trouble in part because it experienced over a 10-year period a 20-percent cut in its budget, and it was starved of resources, including IT resources.

You can't have erratic budgets.

I think you're absolutely onto that, and I'd be glad to work with you in perhaps talking to GAO to get ready for of that kind of analysis.

I can assure you every single major vote on this committee, since I have been here, on this subject has been bipartisan.

The good news is, I think, for the first time since we passed the bill, there are no F's and no D's in the scorecard.

So, it's time for us to look at reform. It's time for us to look at changes.

I really appreciate that cooperation.

I made a promise to Mr. Hice that I would fight for that, and today is the fruit of that effort.

I think that gives him a flashing green light to do more of it and to look at other areas where he can do damage to the United States.

If I were an intelligence person and I saw any kind of intelligence that seemed halfway credible... I would want to make sure the Commander in Chief knew about that.

The rationale given for why he was not briefed, as you just pointed out, Mr. Morell, does not have credibility.