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Excerpt from Simplifying and Streamlining the Federal Procurement Process: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Government Management, Information, and Technology of the Committee on Government Reform and Oversight House of Representative, One Fourth Congress, First Session, February 28, 1995 The subcommittee met, pursuant to notice, at 2:35 p.m., in room 2154, Rayburn House Office Building, Hon. Stephen Horn (chairman of the subcommittee) presiding. Present: Representatives Flanagan, Davis, Fox, Bass, Clinger, Maloney, and Spratt. Staff present: J. Russell George, staff director; Ellen B. Brown, procurement counsel; Susan Marshall, procurement specialist; and Andrew G. Richardson, clerk. Mr. Horn. Ladies and gentlemen, the Subcommittee on Government Management, Information, and Technology will come to order. We have some excellent witnesses this afternoon, and we are going to try to keep on schedule. Let me remind the witnesses that your entire statement will be automatically entered into the record. We ask you to then summarize your statement in 5 minutes. We will abide by the 5-minute rule. Each member of the panel alternating between Republicans and Democrats will then have 5 minutes to question the panel. We'll have all witnesses speak first. then open it up to the Members. We will have a second round of questions. Now, we won't be able to meet everybody's needs in terms of the Members on questions, so bear with us if we ask you to respond to some written questions to follow up. We will print your answers in the record as submitted. And you should also know at the beginning of this hearing that it is the practice of the Committee on Government Reform and Oversight to swear in witnesses. And unless the witnesses agree to the oath, they are not permitted to testify. That has been our consistent rule over the last few years, regardless of the witness, and regardless of his position. We will swear in each panel as a panel. I would like the first panel to come forward, and then I will have an opening statement, and the chairman of the full committee, Mr. Bill Clinger, who I'm delighted has joined us, will give an opening statement. And Mrs. Maloney, Representative from New York, will give an opening statement. We would ask the other Members to file their opening statements so we can then proceed with the panel. 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.