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He said the companies that win the contracts understand the procurement process better than anyone else and not because they provide better technology. without smaller companies getting involved, theres less competition as well as less pressure to deliver results quickly and under budget. connecticut senator richard blumenthal told me yesterday its also impacting federal agents across the board, including the v.a. >> this i.t. issue is one that is government wide in terms of the costs of procure...

>> what did you see that emerged -- seems to me, republicans have moved past certain criticisms. yet, that seems to be the implementation order that this law needs to get over. >> it is interesting for sort of fiscal conservatives to move on, and worry about this issue, whether or not people can keep their health insurance. you know, the system that we use called the federal procurement process, in order to buy and build healthcare.gov is broken. and that is responsible for $500 billion a year o...

Implementation order that this law needs to get over. >> it is interesting for sort of fiscal conservatives to move on, and worry about this issue, whether or not people can keep their health insurance. you know, the system that we use called the federal procurement process, in order to buy and build healthcare.gov is broken. and that is responsible for $500 billion a year of spend by the federal government. >> wait, im sorry -- $500 billion a year? >> yes, a half a trillion dollars a year. ts a...

A phone number where you could call to call in for your options. but what were seeing here and what i think is pretty interesting and talking to folks in the valley, theres a real innovation problem when it ms cos to innovating within the government. i spoke to the first chief information officer at the white house. he was the first there. and he later left to go to silicon valley, become an executive at sales force, a cloud computing company. he talked to me about some of the biggest problems. ...

Stay two weekend nights and get a $75 prepaid card. >> sean: we continue with our great american panel. congressman alan west obliterates an obama official at a hearing. >> what has been broken in the procurement process up to this point, which leads to that draft executive order? >> fact is enormous numbers of dollars of taxpayer funds are at risk in the procurement

He got it done and understands not only the politics of it, the political courage it takes to take on all the interests. all the interests, business, labor, environment. everybody has a reason not to cut the budget. thoughts gone for that. he understands how to do that. thats going to be the central issue certainly in the republican primary, maybe in the general election. and hes the only guy who can say he did it at a very practical working level and i think thats going to be a powerful case. q...

Youre saying this gives them the authority to take weapons that the government and the virgin islands already owns from armories? >> let us assume that some circumstances came up at the national guard, it needed some munition that was not within an armory. if that munition was available in any retail store, the national guard, the general would not have to go through the procurement process of the government to purchase it, she could go in there and buy that right off the rack because shes doing...

As the secretary pointed out, it has a substantial verification process that will extend over a very long period of time, in particular not much mention publicly, a dedicated procurement process which will give inspectors the opportunity to carefully evaluate everything that iran is doing when combined with the inspections. so, it isnt perfect. nothing is in life, and particularly an agreement reached by adversaries after a very lengthy negotiations, but the reality is, the leverage rests entire...

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