Bad day for Halliburton - "Obama to create 'do not pay' list to bar shady contractors"

[quiet.american]

Obama administration to create 'do not pay' list to bar shady contractors
http://content.usatoday.com/communities/theoval/post/2010/06/obama-administration-to-create-do-not-pay-list-to-bar-shady-contractors/1

In a just-issued presidential memo, the president gives federal agencies 90 days to come up with procedures for scrubbing databases for signs of past fraud before cutting any checks.

The effort is a response to well-documented examples of government agencies continuing to do business with known bad actors. The reason: agencies often haven't had access to -- or bothered to consult -- records that would alert them to past records of fraud.

That has resulted in some big-time waste: Federal auditors already have uncovered $180 million in federal benefits paid to 20,000 dead people, and another $230 million in checks cut to felons in jail or fugitive from justice, Biden said. In addition, the vice president disclosed that a yet-to-be issued Government Accountability Office report will tally "millions of dollars in erroneous payments" under the federal government's program to assist low-income households with heating bills.



New software, widely in use in the private sector but just now being deployed by the federal government, will enable Uncle Sam to end the practice, Vice President Biden and White House Budget Director Peter Orszag said today. It allows the government to cross-check multiple databases for background on prospective contractors. Orszag showed one example where five "companies" were traced to the same address: a house with a swimming pool and a boat dock.

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Let's hope Halliburton and Michelle "$250k/yr-in-gub'mint money" Bachmann get caught up in this net.

[Cha]

1. The Smart Government building a strong

infrastructure and foundation to get even smarter.

I can see why you may have mentioned halliburton from the title in your OP, QA.

I should think all these new implementations and software will save us taxpayers, money.

20, 000 dead people getting benefits?..not good.

[POAS]

2. Just another example

of Obama putting his socialist boot to the throat of American business.

Sure, that's :sarcasm: here but that kind of thinking is sure to show up as a serious assertion somewhere in teabag-land.

edit: oops put this in wrong place (hey I had a fifty-fifty shot).

[Cha]

3. And, I'm just going to kick

this good info again.

So glad we have the President and his Team.

[POAS]

4. Anything you can boot I can boot better,

I can boot anything better than you.

Great, now I'll have that tune going through my head all night!

[Cha]

5. Betcha can't..

not really..I bet you can.:)

[POAS]

6. :-)

:evilgrin:

[mr1956]

7. This administration is quietly going about the business of governing

I hope you can put this on the front page of DU, everyone needs to see this. If he won't blow his own horn we should do it for him!

[Hekate]

8. Didn't our President say something about kicking some asses?

:kick: :kick: :kick: :kick: :kick: :kick: :kick: :kick: :kick:



:fistbump:

Hekate

[Cha]

9. Yeah, he did and I believe

there were some who said it would come back to bite him in the ass. Ah, no..it won't.