Claire McCaskill
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Three senators are calling for a Government Accountability Office investigation to ensure federal contracts are actually going to businesses owned by veterans and service-disabled vets.
November 07, 2011 -
Senior defense leaders told Congress they\'ve already made huge steps toward implementing the recommendations of the Commission on Wartime Contracting. Former members of the panel say DoD still has a lot of work to do.
October 20, 2011 -
Sens. Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.) and John McCain (R-Ariz.) have asked the Defense Department to review its ANC contracts and to provide detailed reports on all contracts more than $20 million that went to small businesses in the last five years.
October 18, 2011 -
The proposal by Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.) would establish no more than 20 industries as categories and size standards based on the current Economic Census.
September 22, 2011 -
The Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee voted to hold the number of federal employees stable for the foreseeable future. Sen. Joseph Lieberman (I-Conn.) said he also wants to look at the size of the agency\'s contractor workforce as well. The freeze was approved in the committee\'s first-ever DHS reauthorization bill.
September 22, 2011 -
States need to help CMS fight fraudulent claims, says Sen. Claire McCaskill.
July 13, 2011 -
Democratic Senators, led by Barbara Mikulski (D-Md.), say Panetta\'s plan breaks the law.
July 12, 2011 -
An in-depth analysis report by a Senate committee exposes inadequacies in spending on counternarcotics contracts in Latin America, which may affect future expansion to Afghanistan.
June 08, 2011 -
The Army and Marine Corps are both in the early phases of deploying logistics accountability systems that will replace a collection of disconnected, stovepiped IT systems and processes that have grown up since the 1960s. Though the systems share the same objective, they were made by different vendors, prompting questions from one member of Congress.
March 22, 2011 -
Rep. Thompson and Sen. McCaskill have recently proposed companion bills to make changes to the contracting program.
February 11, 2011 -
Improving the performance of federal contract audits is one way a Senate Committee us trying to root out waste, fraud and abuse.
February 08, 2011 -
From “Contracting officers get too friendly with contractors, senator says” by Matthew Weigelt at Washington Technology: Contracting officers should stick to auditors’ conclusions on contract pricing to keep the officers’ perhaps impaired judgment out of…
February 02, 2011 -
The general overseeing the Air Force\'s investigation into a November incident that sent competitors\' data to rival bidders said Thursday that she was pleased with the companies\' handling of the situation. The Pentagon remains convinced that the accidental disclosure will not affect the outcome of the $35 billion acquisition.
January 27, 2011 -
Arnold Fields, the special inspector general for Afghanistan reconstruction, failed to convince his congressional critics that he\'s qualified to handle his watchdog job.
December 03, 2010 -
Sen. Claire McCaskill\'s legislation would take aim at privileges for Alaska native corporations.
November 17, 2010