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U.S. contractors exempt from reporting fraud or abuse when overseas |
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Thursday, 13 March 2008 |
Last year the White House Office of Management and Budget inserted a loophole in a budget rule that would exempt U.S. contractors, when overseas, from adhering to regulation that requires them to report any abuse, waste or fraud.
Representative Peter Welch from Vermont is troubled by the White House's refusal to close said loophole. In an interview with the Washington Post, Mr. Welch spoke of the message this sends to U.S. contractors.
"This sends the message that if you're going to do waste, fraud and abuse, don't do it at home, do it abroad," said Rep. Peter Welch (D-Vt.), who has asked House oversight leaders to investigate. "This was slipped in at the last minute. . . . It's obviously something you can't justify in any way, and there's no answer to why you'd allow this to occur abroad any more than you'd allow it to occur domestically. There is a question as to how and why the change was made, and we don't know the answer."
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