Leaders of the key Senate panel overseeing the General Services Administration responded to news of another conference featuring questionable spending by releasing a redacted version of a letter from the acting GSA chief summarizing progress on his “top-to-bottom” review of the troubled agency’s management procedures.
“At a time when Congress must make the toughest budget choices we have ever made, I am sickened to hear more stories about the reckless disregard GSA shows for taxpayer dollars,” said Sen. Joe Lieberman, I-Conn., chairman of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, after House Republicans revealed details of a November 2010 Federal Acquisition Service conference held in Arlington, Va.
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A redacted copy of a letter that acting GSA Administrator Dan Tangherlini sent on June 20, 2012 to the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee in response to a series of questions the lawmakers posed on May 10: http://cdn.govexec.com/media/gbc/docs/pdfs_edit/072012cc1.pdf.
