[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 153 (2007), Part 18]
[Senate]
[Page 25902]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                             PRIVATIZATION

  Mr. BROWN. Mr. President, although we are in morning business, I wish 
to add some comments to what Senator Mikulski said about privatization 
because what we have seen throughout our Government--whether it is 
Medicare, the efforts to privatize, which, unfortunately, have been 
partially successful at privatizing but not so successful in serving 
the public, serving seniors, and the totally unsuccessful effort to 
privatize Social Security--what we have seen in public education, what 
we have seen in the prison system in my State of Ohio, what we seen in 
several kinds of efforts to privatize have often resulted in more 
taxpayer dollars being spent, a reduction in service, to be sure, less 
efficiency, and less accountability.
  So her amendment is right on the mark. Her efforts in privatization 
generally are very important. I thank the senior Senator from Maryland 
on that.

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