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Excerpt from Making the Pentagon Accountable; Financial Problems and Progress: Hearing Before the Committee on Governmental Affairs, United States Senate, One Hundred Third Congress, Second Session, July 12, 1994 The Committee met, pursuant to notice, at 9:35 a.m., in room SD-342, Dirksen Senate Office Building, Hon. John Glenn, Chairman of the Committee, presiding. Present: Senators Glenn and Dorgan. Opening Statement of Chairman Glenn Chairman Glenn. The hearing will be in order. Good morning. Today the Committee on Governmental Affairs meets to review the financial management progress of the Defense Department. If past experience is any guide, just that very exciting announcement of the hearing title is almost guaranteed to clear out part of our audience and a high percentage of the press table. We have spent a lot of time on this issue, and whether there is a lot of overall public interest in this or not is beside the point; it is a very, very important issue and one that we are committed to follow. We have spent a lot of time on it, and I suspect before we are done that we will spend a lot more time on it. In my opinion, if the Pentagon can improve the way it accounts for taxpayer money, then we can save many, many tens of billions of dollars and improve the Government's credibility at the same time. And yes, that is exhilarating, and yes, that is exciting if we can do that. We have probably held a dozen hearings on Pentagon financial management, and probably another dozen on issues like inventory and spare parts and defective pricing. For years, we saw very little action after we pointed out problems. You would think that when we had a hearing, people would hop to when we pointed out things where there were deficiencies, but that just did not happen. But I do think more recently, with Secretary Perry, Deputy Secretary Deutch, and Comptroller John Hamre and his new team on board, that we have begun to see real high-level attention paid to financial management. As a result, we are beginning to get much needed progress. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.