[Congressional Record Volume 149, Number 160 (Thursday, November 6, 2003)]
[House]
[Pages H10461-H10462]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
DYNCORP CONTRACT TO TRAIN POLICE IN IRAQ
(Mr. DUNCAN asked and was given permission to address the House for 1
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
Mr. DUNCAN. Mr. Speaker, liberals who gave us Big Government should
love the DynCorp contract to train police in Iraq. Almost all Federal
contracts are sweetheart deals that hire former high-level Federal
employees or retired military officers, but this police training
contract just about takes the cake.
NBC News reported the night before last that we have already spent
$30 million on this deal and will in short order be spending $800
million more. We will be spending, according to NBC, $400,000 per
trainer, counting salaries, benefits and expenses. No policeman in this
country makes anywhere near this much.
DynCorp was so embarrassed they refused to comment because they knew
there was no way they could justify the obscene profits and ripoff of
the U.S.
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taxpayers in this sweetheart deal, $850 million, $400,000 per trainer.
DynCorp should be ashamed, but I suppose they are laughing all the way
to the bank.
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