Political Quotes

Lester Johnson

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Jan 13, 2014

So we are publishing these conferences that exceed half a million dollars on individual agency websites, correct?

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Jan 13, 2014

That is really what OMB should be driving.

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Jan 13, 2014

I would suggest that. Certainly in the private sector, if I needed to make sure there was greater efficiency in a particular department, we did it with their budget.

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Jan 13, 2014

Are you, coming from the private sector, as frustrated as I am in terms of the lack of good, solid, basic financial information to be able to make these decisions in order to drive these types of performance improvements?

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Jan 13, 2014

Talk, encourage. What about management actually directing people to use something that works so we save taxpayer money?

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Jan 13, 2014

Is that a piece of legislation that is required? I mean, I would think the OMB could basically force agencies to do so...

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Jan 13, 2014

I mean, the fact that we do not have a common accounting system, that we do not have a common way of accounting for these things is ridiculous.

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Jan 13, 2014

Let us pare them back, let us force efficiency.

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Jan 13, 2014

I think one thing we can do in terms of keeping that spotlight on this would be something the Committee...

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Jan 13, 2014

Wouldn't that be a pretty effective control? I mean, we talk about all these controls in theory, but the most effective control is how much money do you have to spend?

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Jan 13, 2014

I want to understand exactly how the training occurs, who is doing it, how much is done by the FAA, how much is done by Raytheon, what the breakdown is, how intensive this training is.

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