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Senate Ethics Committee debates wording of report, retains auditors' block quotes and reconvenes at 11 a.m.
Summary
The Senate Ethics Committee continued line-by-line edits of its committee report on agile contracts, opting to include block quotes of audit testimony while trimming editorial commentary; members approved a conceptual amendment of today's edits and agreed to reconvene at 11 a.m. for final sign-off.
The Senate Ethics Committee met to continue editing a committee report arising from its inquiry into procurement arrangements for agile contracts, with members debating whether to preserve auditors' testimony verbatim or to summarize it in committee language.
Senator Pope pressed for clearer, declarative findings and for removing what she called interpretive language, while others urged the committee to memorialize direct testimony. Staff read proposed wording introducing legislative auditor Angus McKeever's testimony and a block quote from the audit that said the initial effort “to artificially bifurcate the contracts and the subsequent acceptance of decisions to forego proper sole source exceptions and exigency procedures deprive[d] the state of the financial benefits of open…
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