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July 24, 2012 By AMK

Senator ‘sickened’ by new GSA controversy

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.

Keep reading this article at: http://www.govexec.com/oversight/2012/07/senator-sickened-new-gsa-controversy/56928/?oref=govexec_today_nl.

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.

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