Honest Leadership and Accountability in Contracting Act of 2007

A bill to improve Federal contracting and procurement by eliminating fraud and abuse and improving competition in contracting and procurement and by enhancing administration of Federal contracting personnel, and for other purposes.

2/15/2007--Introduced.
Honest Leadership and Accountability in Contracting Act of 2007 - Amends the federal criminal code to impose fines and penalties on war profiteering and fraud. Requires revision of the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) to provide that no prospective contractor shall be considered to have a satisfactory record of integrity and ethics if it has a pattern of either overcharging the government or failing to comply with the law. Provides for the disclosure to Congress of audit reports issued by executive agencies. Requires the Federal Procurement Data System to be modified to include publication of information on specified federal contractor penalties and violations. Amends the Federal Property and Administrative Services Act of 1949 to prohibit awarding of certain monopoly federal contracts. Requires revision of the FAR to require competition for certain multiple award contracts. Denies protest rights for certain awards. Prohibits an agency from contracting for the performance of:
(1) any inherently governmental function; or
(2) acquisition functions closely associated with inherently governmental functions. Prescribes minimum requirements for political appointees holding public contracting and safety positions. Includes as a protected disclosure by a federal employee:
(1) any lawful disclosure an employee or applicant reasonably believes is credible evidence of waste, abuse, or gross mismanagement, without restriction as to time, place, form, motive, context, or prior disclosure; and
(2) the disclosure of information required to be kept secret in the interest of national defense or the conduct of foreign affairs that the employee or applicant reasonably believes is direct evidence of waste, abuse, or gross mismanagement if such disclosure is made to a Member or employee of Congress who is authorized to receive information of the type disclosed. Sets forth provisions concerning review and appeal of actions concerning such disclosures. Amends the Homeland Security Act of 2002 to provide that, for purposes of provisions regarding the protection of voluntarily shared critical infrastructure information, a permissible use of independently obtained critical infrastructure information includes any lawful disclosure an employee or applicant reasonably believes is credible evidence of waste, fraud, abuse, or gross mismanagement, without restriction as to time, place, form, motive, context, or prior disclosure. Requires agencies to inform employees on how to make a lawful disclosure of information.

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Sponsor

• Sen. Byron Dorgan [D, ND]
• and 22 Co-Sponsors
  • Sen. B. Evan Bayh [D, IN]
  • Sen. Jeff Bingaman [D, NM]
  • Sen. Barbara Boxer [D, CA]
  • Sen. Sherrod Brown [D, OH]
  • Sen. Hillary Clinton [D, NY]
  • Sen. Kent Conrad [D, ND]
  • Sen. Richard Durbin [D, IL]
  • Sen. Russell Feingold [D, WI]
  • Sen. Dianne Feinstein [D, CA]
  • Sen. Thomas Harkin [D, IA]
  • Sen. Edward Kennedy [D, MA]
  • Sen. John Kerry [D, MA]
  • Sen. Mary Landrieu [D, LA]
  • Sen. Frank Lautenberg [D, NJ]
  • Sen. Patrick Leahy [D, VT]
  • Sen. Robert Menendez [D, NJ]
  • Sen. Barbara Mikulski [D, MD]
  • Sen. Bill Nelson [D, FL]
  • Sen. Barack Obama [D, IL]
  • Sen. Mark Pryor [D, AR]
  • Sen. Harry Reid [D, NV]
  • Sen. Ron Wyden [D, OR]
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Committees

• Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs

Amendments

This bill has no amendments.

Amendments to S.606

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February 15, 2007

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• Feb 15, 2007: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
• Introduced on Feb 15, 2007.

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• Public contracts
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• Business
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• Congress
• Congressional investigations
• Congressional oversight
• Congressional reporting requirements
• Congressional witnesses
• Criminal justice
• Defense contracts
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• Department of Health and Human Services
• Department of Homeland Security
• Disciplining of employees
• Due process of law
• Emergency management
• Employee rights
• Employee selection
• Environmental Protection Agency
• Evidence (Law)
• Executive departments
• Extraterritoriality
• Federal Emergency Management Agency
• Federal employees
• Federal officials
• Finance
• Forfeiture
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• General Services Administration
• Government contractors
• Government employees
• Government information
• Government paperwork
• Government procurement
• Government publicity
• Governmental investigations
• Intelligence activities
• Joint ventures
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• Law
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• Military operations
• Misconduct in office
• Office of Government Ethics
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• Official secrets
• Politics and government
• Presidential appointments
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• Security clearances
• Valuation
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December 24, 2007 Domänenfrage im Verfassungsrecht

Rezension erschienen in: Zeitschrift für die Geschichte des Oberrheins 155 (2007), S. 606-608 Selten erlebt ein Doktorand, dass seine Erstlingsarbeit politischen Zündstoff birgt. Als im Herbst 2006 das ungeheuerliche Vorhaben der ...

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February 23, 2007 Links to Honest Leadership and Accountability in Contracting Act

Dorgan's bill (S. 606) would attempt to increase contractor accountability through several mechanisms. First, Dorgan proposes to use increased ... S. 606 would also hold contractors responsible for prior performance and activities. ...

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