[Congressional Record Volume 146, Number 62 (Thursday, May 18, 2000)]
[House]
[Page H3313]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                        PORKER OF THE WEEK AWARD

  (Mr. HEFLEY asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. HEFLEY. Mr. Speaker, someone at the Department of Education has a 
lot of explaining to do. A contract employee, who was hired by the 
department to take care of its telephone and computer needs, recently 
admitted to carrying out a criminal plot that cost the government more 
than $1 million.
  The contractor illegally steered more than $300,000 worth of 
equipment to an Education Department employee who was overseeing his 
work. The supervisor got a 61-inch television, cordless telephones, 
compact disk players, walkie-talkies, desktop and laptop computers, 
printers, digital cameras, computer scanners and Palm Pilots.
  In addition to diverting the merchandise, the contractor routinely 
performed errands for the employee, such as picking up her 
granddaughter from school, all on government time. In exchange for his 
work, the contractor and his coworker walked off with more than 
$600,000 in bogus overtime pay.
  Good grief. Who is minding the store? The Department of Education 
gets my ``Porker of the Week'' Award.

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