She sat on the House Armed Services Committee, and was involved in government oversight, passing several procurement reforms.

That bias is apparent in the dismissive attitude toward the potential savings in procurement reform.

Since we got this procurement reform passed," Clinton replied, "there are no more of those $10 ashtrays and $500 hammers.

Congress needs to recognize that procurement reform will be effective only if we stop the revolving-door approach to top management and insure consistent leadership.

Ministerial statements in 2010 and 2011 suggested that the Government believed new procurement reforms were needed.

But since then, the city has adopted almost a dozen so-called procurement reforms, and a review of that area may be more limited this year.

The facts about the Republican Vice Presidential nominee's role in military procurement reform suggest otherwise.

Mr. Bloomberg has recently floated the idea of putting procurement reform on the ballot this year as a charter revision referendum.

Though some procurement reforms have been instituted, the Budget Committee's report indicates that major problems of oversupplying remain.

There are already proposals out there from the Administration for procurement reform.