75 ordspråk av Keith Ashdown
Keith Ashdown
 If you're a lobbyist, you've got the Washington version of the scarlet letter tattooed on your back right now. |
| Instead of the Air Force acting as an independent reviewer of this nearly $30 billion deal, they've acted as a silent business partner of Boeing. |
| It is a good reform. It creates an added deterrent to things being added (to conference reports) at the last minute. |
| It looks like they're going to do what they should have done in the first place. There's been a lot of pressure on them to make sure that the economic benefit of these contracts stays in the Gulf Coast and doesn't flow to corporate boardrooms thousands of miles away. So in that respect, this is good news. |
| It's a challenge. We're really trying to get blood out of a stone, politically. |
| It's a real question of who's minding the store. It creates doubt in the investments we're making. |
| It's disconcerting, ... These are supposed to be the crème de la crème of forces. If their procurement officers were taking kickbacks, it could be happening anywhere. |
| It's disconcerting. These are supposed to be the crème de la crème of forces. If their procurement officers were taking kickbacks, it could be happening anywhere. |
| It's hard to turn around a train in Washington, and they deserve credit. |
| It's ironic. This program was set up to save money. But because of poor oversight, it has spent money like Paris Hilton at a shoe sale. |
| It's just become a budget gimmick on steroids. It just gives them a chance to take those costs off budget. |
| It's not a question of when, it's now. |
| It's sending shivers down the spines of a lot of senators. They've thrown down the gauntlet here to other people. I believe this is probably a bargaining chip to try to move senators down the road to more earmarking reform. |
| It's trickle-down contracting: You're paying a cut at every level, and it makes the final cost exponentially more expensive than it needs to be. And in almost every case, the local people who really need to be making the money are at the bottom of these upside-down pyramid schemes. |
| Lawmakers are not trying to win campaign cash. They are trying to make sure that they employ thousands of people. |
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