Thornberry pushing legislation focused on DOD accountability on reform, innovation

By Tony Bertuca / April 9, 2019 at 4:27 PM
House Armed Services Committee Ranking Member Mac Thornberry (R-TX), who had spearheaded a host of defense acquisition and business reforms in recent years, said today he is preparing to ink a bill targeting "bureaucratic foot-dragging" at the Pentagon to ensure those reforms are being implemented. "Some of this stuff is just getting the regulations through the lawyers, some of it is just things that they have not done," he told reporters. "A fair criticism one can make of Congress is...

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