Thursday, March 5, 2009

President Orders Review of Federal Contracting System - washingtonpost.com

Obama's announcement, joined by a bipartisan group of lawmakers, including Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), served as a philosophical break with the Bush administration, which vastly expanded the role of contractors in running the government and fighting the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. The president said, "We will stop outsourcing services that should be performed by the government," noting that annual spending on contracts had doubled to more than $500 billion over the past eight years.
President Orders Review of Federal Contracting System - washingtonpost.com

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