Speech #980156441

The first. unearthed by an inspector generals investigation of military spending. reveals how one military manufacturer was unjustly enriched by more than $40 million at the taxpayers expense because the Army did not insist that reduced prices by subcontractors be passed on to the American taxpayers. The inspector generals report described this case as typical of minimal or nonexistent attention by Pentagon auditors to subcontractor prices. which account for about half of our multibilliondollar military procurement bills. At the same time. the Office of Management and Budget has ordered the illegal impoundment of the $30 million which Congress appropriated last year for emergency educational assistance to immigrant children in our public schools. In this case. the OMB action is a flagrant violation of the AntiImpoundment Act. In spite of written assurances given to me on January 5 by Secretary of Education T.