Lawmakers look to get tough on problem contractors
Source: By AMY DOOLITTLE, Federal Times, July 23, 2007
House Democrats intend to make it harder for unethical and poor-performing contractors to win federal business.
“Right now, there is nothing stopping a fraudulent contractor from bouncing from federal agency to federal agency, fleecing U.S. taxpayers the whole way,” Rep. Carolyn Maloney, D-N.Y., said July 18 at a House hearing to review the matter.
She and Edolphus Towns, D-N.Y., introduced this month a bill that would create a new extensive database on every federal contractor that has done work for the government in the last five years.