E904 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — Extensions of Remarks May 13, 2011 He said to us: ‘‘During the massacre, the do so reflected a political ideology of shrinking prove and streamline services—developing a Turkish government took away my innocent the government workforce—even if it meant more efficient process without the costs and father and my older brother and they never diminishing the quality or increasing the cost controversies of the A–76 process. returned home. They were murdered by the of government services that are overwhelm- Turkish government. My younger brother We have some of the best and brightest in died of cold and hunger and there was no one ingly supported by American taxpayers. This our civil service; public servants with a deep around to bury him. My second oldest sister course of action negatively impacted every- and abiding love for this country. They have was married to a Turkish man by force and thing from national defense and border secu- important missions—to make the next sci- she died of hunger and cold as well. All of rity to the collection of taxes and the steward- entific breakthrough; to protect our nation from our belongings: home, money, jewelry, cloth- ship of our public lands. In many cases, work foreign threats; to keep our communities safe ing and our historic homeland, were taken was outsourced with little or no competition— from crime or disaster; to maintain our critical away by the Turks.’’ subverting the public interest and wasting bil- infrastructure. By enacting the CLEAN UP Act, My husband was an eyewitness to the mas- lions in taxpayer dollars. sacre. He was exposed to a terrible tragedy. we have an opportunity to support our Federal It changed his entire life. He saw bodies bur- This bill is not about punishing the con- workforce, save taxpayer dollars, restore good ied below the ground with their heads ex- tractor community or criticizing the work that government, and reduce waste, fraud, and posed to the sun. He saw men, women, and they do. The vast majority of these firms want abuse. children lying on the ground dead. to do the right thing and have performed many The surviving members of my husband’s important functions on behalf of the govern- f family, his mother and two older sisters, ment. However, there is some government ended up in a refugee camp. His mother work that is not appropriately awarded to the IN RECOGNITION OF THE CAREER worked hard for several years just so they lowest bidder. Often this work is about pro- AND ACHIEVEMENTS OF GERARD could stay alive. She was a beautiful woman, viding a service as a matter of policy without and had offers to marry several Turkish and TULLY Armenian men, but refused to remarry. In regard to profit. The process by which we the 1920s they were fortunate to emigrate to make decisions to hire government workers or Israel, and then to the United States in the to contract with the private sector for certain HON. GARY L. ACKERMAN 1960s. functions must reflect a mature understanding OF NEW YORK My husband experienced a great deal of of the real differences between the mission of IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES sadness, tragedy, depression, and loneliness. government and that of business. He always loved his family and this country More recently, Congress has begun to rein Friday, May 13, 2011 with all his heart. He acknowledged all the in administrative procurement policy by requir- Presidents of the U.S. by hanging their pic- Mr. ACKERMAN. Mr. Speaker, I rise today tures on the wall of our home. To him, these ing more robust competition in contracting and to seek Congressional recognition of the ex- men stood for freedom. The freedom this ensuring that the core functions of government ceptional achievements and outstanding ca- Country gave him allowed him to live like a are performed by government employees. The reer of Gerard Tully. On May 25th, 2011, Mr. human being, and express his thoughts. It CLEAN UP Act seeks to reverse the damage Tully will be recognized by the President, gave him the courage to speak freely and that has already been done by requiring agen- Chairman of the Board, and Board of Directors never be silent again about his beloved fami- cies to develop plans to bring inherently gov- lies. of the Flushing Savings Bank for his 44 years ernmental work back in-house and ensuring of tireless and dedicated service to the Bank As you know, the ‘‘Aloha state’’ proclama- that future procurement decisions are made tion makes Hawaii the 42nd state to recog- and the Flushing Community. based on the best interest of the government nize the Armenian Genocide. Countries After graduating from Hofstra College in and the taxpayer. around the world such as Switzerland, 1950, Mr. Tully set to work in the construction The CLEAN UP Act will make the con- France, Canada, Italy, Sweden, Russia and industry, working for numerous businesses others, have passed a resolution recognizing tracting process fair to Federal employees and and creating countless jobs in the Queens and the Armenian genocide and proclaim a Day accountable to taxpayers. of Remembrance every year on April 24. Congress has heard from Federal workers Long Island communities. In 1967, he joined The U.S. government should have the will- and advocates in and out of government and the Flushing Savings Bank as a trustee. From ingness to join with countries around the their conclusions are the same—the current 1981 through 1989, he served as the chief ex- world, and formally acknowledge and com- system is broken. We must develop a clear, ecutive officer, and from 1980 until 2011, he memorate the Armenian genocide each and government-wide standard for what work was chairman of the board. His retirement as every year on April 24. If it is not taught in chairman on February 15th marks the end of our school and if we ignore the history then should or must be performed by government workers and put in place a fair process for an era for the Flushing bank. His decades of we are destined to repeat the mistakes of the experience and wealth of knowledge have past. competing all other work. made him an invaluable asset for the bank Thank you for supporting the remem- That is why I have introduced the CLEAN brance of the Armenian Genocide. UP Act. and the customers it serves. Moving forward, Sincerely, The CLEAN UP Act will: he will continue his distinguished service as a Mary. Impose a uniform, government-wide stand- member of the board. f ard for government work, distinguishing be- Mr. Tully’s success was not just confined to tween the functions which must be done by the realm of the business. For decades, he THE INTRODUCTION OF THE our civil servants and those functions that may has been an active participant in a diverse CLEAN UP ACT be done competently by the private sector; group of community organizations. His support Incrementally bring work that should be per- of Catholic Charities and the Juvenile Diabe- HON. JOHN P. SARBANES formed by Federal employees back in-house; tes Foundation deserves special recognition. OF MARYLAND Encourage agencies to consider assigning Mr. Tully’s active participation and skilled lead- ership in a variety of charitable endeavors has IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES new work to Federal employees if they would be more efficient rather than pursuing a policy changed countless lives for the better. Mr. Friday, May 13, 2011 of contracting-out, frequently through sole- Tully’s legacy of selfless devotion to commu- Mr. SARBANES. Mr. Speaker, I rise today source or limited competition contracts; nity service is something in which his wife, to introduce the Correction of Longstanding Require agencies to determine where there Frances, and their 17 grandchildren and five Errors in Agencies Unsustainable Procure- are or will be shortages of Federal employees great grandchildren can take great pride. ments (CLEAN UP) Act. This legislation will and develop plans to address these short- Mr. Speaker, I am proud to count Mr. Tully reform the badly flawed competitive sourcing ages; among my constituents in the 5th Congres- process—saving taxpayer dollars and reinvigo- Maintain the existing suspension of the use sional District of New York. He has stepped rating our civil service. of the Office of Management and Budget down as the Chairman of the Board of the Especially in our current era of budget defi- (OMB) Circular A–76 process until OMB deter- Flushing Savings Bank after having contrib- cits, efficient government is paramount. Over mines that the reforms required by this legisla- uted immeasurably his community. I am proud the last decade, we have been much too quick tion have been implemented; to recognize Mr. Tully and I ask my colleagues to outsource many of government’s most basic Direct Agencies to implement an alternative to join me in thanking him for a lifetime of self- functions to the private sector. The desire to to the A–76 process in order to continually im- less dedication to the community.

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They are among OF VERMONT the one place in government that exists to the most trusted advisers to the four-star do things overseas that no other U.S. agency generals leading the nation’s wars. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES is allowed to do. So great is the government’s appetite for Thursday, May 12, 2011 Private contractors working for the CIA private contractors with top-secret clear- have recruited spies in Iraq, paid bribes for ances that there are now more than 300 com- The House in Committee of the Whole information in Afghanistan and protected panies, often nicknamed ‘‘body shops,’’ that House on the State of the Union had under CIA directors visiting world capitals. Con- specialize in finding candidates, often for a consideration the bill (H.R. 754) to authorize tractors have helped snatch a suspected ex- fee that approaches $50,000 a person, accord- appropriations for fiscal year 2011 for intel- tremist off the streets of Italy, interrogated ing to those in the business. ligence and intelligence-related activities of detainees once held at secret prisons abroad Making it more difficult to replace con- the United States Government, the Commu- and watched over defectors holed up in the tractors with federal employees: The govern- nity Management Account, and the Central Washington suburbs. At Langley head- ment doesn’t know how many are on the fed- Intelligence Agency Retirement and Dis- quarters, they analyze terrorist networks. At eral payroll. Gates said he wants to reduce ability System, and for other purposes: the agency’s training facility in Virginia, the number of defense contractors by about Mr. WELCH. Mr. Chair, today I want to high- they are helping mold a new generation of 13 percent, to pre-9/11 levels, but he’s having light a critical issue facing the Intelligence American spies. a hard time even getting a basic head count. Community: increasing reliance on contrac- Through the federal budget process, the ‘‘This is a terrible confession,’’ he said. ‘‘I tors. George W. Bush administration and Congress can’t get a number on how many contractors A 2010 Washington Post story reported that made it much easier for the CIA and other work for the Office of the Secretary of De- agencies involved in counterterrorism to fense,’’ referring to the department’s civilian 30 percent of the workforce in our intelligence hire more contractors than civil servants. leadership. agencies is contractors. Furthermore, the Post They did this to limit the size of the perma- The Post’s estimate of 265,000 contractors estimated that out of 854,000 people with top- nent workforce, to hire employees more doing top-secret work was vetted by several secret clearances, 265,000 are contractors. I quickly than the sluggish federal process al- high-ranking intelligence officials who ap- encourage my colleagues to read this eye lows and because they thought—wrongly, it proved of The Post’s methodology. The news- opening article. turned out—that contractors would be less paper’s Top Secret America database in- These startling facts cause me great con- expensive. cludes 1.931 companies that perform work at cern—we’ve learned the hard way time and Nine years later, well into the Obama ad- the top-secret level. More than a quarter of ministration, the idea that contractors cost them—533—came into being after 2001, and time again what happens when we fail to mon- less has been repudiated, and the administra- others that already existed have expanded itor the work of federal contractors. The fed- tion has made some progress toward its goal greatly. Most are thriving even as the rest of eral government has the responsibility to of reducing the number of hired hands by 7 the United States struggles with bank- maintain its commitment to monitoring their percent over two years. Still, close to 30 per- ruptcies, unemployment and foreclosures. use—with special attention made to the evolv- cent of the workforce in the intelligence The privatization of national security ing nature of their work and the associated na- agencies is contractors. work has been made possible by a nine-year tional security risks inherent to outsourcing ‘‘For too long, we’ve depended on contrac- ‘‘gusher’’ of money, as Gates recently de- tors to do the operational work that ought scribed national security spending since the these tasks. I look forward to working with the to be done’’ by CIA employees, Panetta said. 9/11 attacks. Select Committee on Intelligence to achieve But replacing them ‘‘doesn’t happen over- With so much money to spend, managers this goal. night. When you’ve been dependent on con- do not always worry about whether they are [From the Washington Post, July 20, 2010] tractors for so long, you have to build that spending it effectively. NATIONAL SECURITY, INC. expertise over time.’’ A second concern of ‘‘Someone says, ‘Let’s do another study,’ Panetta’s: contracting with corporations, and because no one shares information, ev- (By Dana Priest and William M. Arkin) whose responsibility ‘‘is to their share- eryone does their own study,’’ said Elena In June, a stone carver from Manassas holders, and that does present an inherent Mastors, who headed a team studying the al- chiseled another perfect star into a marble conflict.’’ Qaeda leadership for the Defense Depart- wall at CIA headquarters, one of 22 for agen- Or as Gates, who has been in and out of ment. ‘‘It’s about how many studies you can cy workers killed in the global war initiated government his entire life, puts it: ‘‘You orchestrate, how many people you can fly all by the 2001 terrorist attacks. want somebody who’s really in it for a career over the place. Everybody’s just on a spend- The intent of the memorial is to publicly because they’re passionate about it and be- ing spree. We don’t need all these people honor the courage of those who died in the cause they care about the country and not doing all this stuff.’’ line of duty, but it also conceals a deeper just because of the money.’’ Most of these contractors do work that is story about government in the post-9/11 era: Contractors can offer more money—often fundamental to an agency’s core mission. As Eight of the 22 were not CIA officers at all. twice as much—to experienced federal em- a result, the government has become depend- They were private contractors. ployees than the government is allowed to ent on them in a way few could have fore- To ensure that the country’s most sen- pay them. And because competition among seen: wartime temps who have become a per- sitive duties are carried out only by people firms for people with security clearances is manent cadre. loyal above all to the nation’s interest, fed- so great, corporations offer such perks as Just last week, typing ‘‘top secret’’ into eral rules say contractors may not perform BMWs and $15,000 signing bonuses, as the search engine of a major jobs Web site what are called ‘‘inherently government Raytheon did in June for software developers showed 1,951 unfilled positions in the Wash- functions.’’ But they do, all the time and in with top-level clearances. ington area, and 19,759 nationwide: ‘‘Target every intelligence and counterterrorism The idea that the government would save analyst,’’ Reston. ‘‘Critical infrastructure agency, according to a two-year investiga- money on a contract workforce ‘‘is a false specialist,’’ Washington, D.C. ‘‘Joint expedi- tion by The Washington Post. economy,’’ said Mark M. Lowenthal, a tionary team member,’’ Arlington. What started as a temporary fix in re- former senior CIA official and now president ‘‘We could not perform our mission with- sponse to the terrorist attacks has turned of his own intelligence training academy. out them. They serve as our ‘reserves,’ pro- into a dependency that calls into question As companies raid federal agencies of tal- viding flexibility and expertise we can’t ac- whether the federal workforce includes too ent, the government has been left with the quire,’’ said Ronald Sanders, who was chief many people obligated to shareholders rath- youngest intelligence staffs ever while more of human capital for the Office of the Direc- er than the public interest—and whether the experienced employees move into the private tor of National Intelligence before retiring government is still in control of its most sector. This is true at the CIA, where em- in February. ‘‘Once they are on board, we sensitive activities. In interviews last week, ployees from 114 firms account for roughly a treat them as if they’re a part of the total both Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates and third of the workforce, or about 10,000 posi- force.’’ CIA Director Leon Panetta said they agreed tions. Many of them are temporary hires, The Post’s investigation is based on gov- with such concerns. often former military or intelligence agency ernment documents and contracts, job de- The Post investigation uncovered what employees who left government service to scriptions, property records, corporate and amounts to an alternative geography of the work less and earn more while drawing a fed- social networking Web sites, additional United States, a Top Secret America created eral pension. records, and hundreds of interviews with in- since 9/11 that is hidden from public view, Across the government, such workers are telligence, military and corporate officials lacking in thorough oversight and so un- used in every conceivable way. Contractors and former officials. Most requested ano- wieldy that its effectiveness is impossible to kill enemy fighters. They spy on foreign gov- nymity either because they are prohibited determine. ernments and eavesdrop on terrorist net- from speaking publicly or because, they said,

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