Scott Klug: “Mr. Chairman, let me just make a few brief points in closing because we are just about out of time on both sides. I…”

“Mr. Chairman, let me just make a few brief points in closing because we are just about out of time on both sides. I simply want to make the point that, more so than anything else, if we are going to be interested in somebody's interest in this debate that is going on, the interest should be that of the American taxpayers. The General Accounting Office, which is the investigative arm of Congress, when it has done investigations in the past on the Government Printing Office, essentially says, whenever we print a document there, it costs 2 rac{1}{2} times what it does in the private sector. I do not want to see the Government Printing Office be eliminated, but I think it should largely become a procurement arm of the government and get out of the printing industry itself. Over the last 5 years, as we have pointed out, the Government Printing Office has lost $57 million. What we are trying to say on this side of the aisle is we have asked it to do so many things. We should ask it to do less, and we should ask it to do with fewer people than we see at the present time.”