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GSA scandal: Congress holds hearings Four congressional committees hold hearings on the GSA’s excessive spending at a lavish 2010 Las Vegas conference.
April 18, 2012
Senate Environment and Public Works Committee Chair Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-Calif. questions acting GSA Administrator Dan Tangherlini and Inspector General Brian Miller about the misuse of taxpayer's money by officials of the General Services Administration who organized and attended an extravagant Las Vegas conference in, on Capitol Hill in Washington.
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April 18, 2012
General Services Administration Inspector General Brian Miller, left, and Acting GSA Administrator Dan Tangherlini testify during a hearing before Senate Environment and Public Works Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C.
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April 18, 2012
Acting General Services Administration Administrator Dan Tangherlini arrives at a hearing to testify before Senate Environment and Public Works Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C.
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April 18, 2012
Members of Bankrupting America dress as a clown and a mindreader as they hand out "resumes" to make fun of a hearing on the General Services Administration in front of Dirksen Senate Office Building on Capitol Hill. The Senate Environment and Public Works Committee held a hearing on the spending scandal at the General Services Administration.
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April 17, 2012
House Transportation Committee Chairman Rep. John Mica (R-Fla.) expresses his dismay at the misuse of taxpayers' money by officials of the General Services Administration during a 2010 conference at a Las Vegas resort.
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April 17, 2012
GSA Chief Financial Officer Alison Doone testifies on Capitol Hill before the House Economic Development, Public Buildings and Emergency Management subcommittee hearing. Doone said the agency has consolidated all regional budgets under her purview as a response to rapidly increasing conference budgets.
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April 17, 2012
House Economic Development, Public Buildings and Emergency Management subcommittee Chairman Rep. Jeff Denham (R-Calif.) speaks during the subcommittee's hearing. "I am prepared to systematically pull apart GSA to the point I’ll question whether GSA is needed at all," Denham said at the hearing.
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April 17, 2012
Lisa Daniels, now suspended from her job as a GSA Public Buildings Service event planner, testifies before Tuesday's subcommittee hearing. Denham, in consultation with Democrats, excused Daniels without any questions directed to her, recommending she seek legal counsel. "The e-mails we received last night were alarming, the things she admitted to," Denham said.
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April 17, 2012
Witnesses are sworn in prior to testifying before a House Transportation subcommittee hearing to investigate excessive spending at 2010 GSA Las Vegas conference. From left are former GSA Public Buildings Service commissioner Robert Peck, suspended GSA Public Buildings Service event planner Lisa Daniels, Martha Johnson, who stepped down as GSA administrator because of the scandal, and David Foley, deputy commissioner of the GSA Public Buildings Service.
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April 17, 2012
From right to left, GSA Deputy Administrator Susan Brita, GSA Inspector General Brian Miller, and GSA Chief Financial Officer Alison Doone, arrive on Capitol Hill in Washington to testify before the House Economic Development, Public Buildings and Emergency Management subcommittee hearing.
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April 16, 2012
GSA Inspector General Brian Miller answers questions from the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform. Miller's April 2 report detailed the excesses at the 2010 Las Vegas conference.
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April 16, 2012
Appearing before the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, former GSA official Jeff Neely declines to answer questions at a hearing about wasteful spending and excesses at the 2010 GSA Las Vegas conference. Neely, formerly the regional commissioner of the Public Buildings Service, Pacific Rim Region, was ordered to leave the witness table after invoking his rights to not testify on the advice of his counsel.
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April 16, 2012
House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.), right, talks with the Committee's ranking Democrat, Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-Md.) during the committee's hearing investigating wasteful spending by the GSA. “What has come to light surrounding GSA’s activities should give pause to anyone who has opposed cutting government size and spending," Rep. Issa said at the hearing.
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April 16, 2012
Former GSA Administrator Martha Johnson pauses as she answers questions from the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform as it investigates wasteful spending and excesses by GSA during a 2010 Las Vegas conference. Johnson resigned in the wake of the scandal.
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April 16, 2012
Michael Robertson, chief of staff with the GSA, left, and David Foley, deputy commissioner of public buildings service with the GSA, listen during a House Oversight and Government Reform committee hearing on the agency's 2010 Las Vegas conference. The five-day event featured a professional mind reader, a clown and a $75,000 team-building exercise that involved assembling bicycles.
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April 16, 2012
The General Services Administration's spending is displayed on a screen during the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee hearing on "Addressing GSA's Culture of Wasteful Spending" on Capitol Hill in Washington. An annual federal training conference deteriorated during the past decade from a productive gathering into "a raucous, extravagant, arrogant, self-congratulatory event," an ousted U.S. government administrator said on Monday.
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April 16, 2012
Jeff Neely, the central figure in a GSA spending scandal, left, confers with his counsel on Capitol Hill in Washington, Neely asserted his Fifth Amendment right to remain silent at a congressional hearing.
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April 16, 2012
The House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform conducts the first hearing on incidents of wasteful spending by the GSA, the real estate agency for federal buildings. Being sworn in to testify, from left are, GSA Inspector General Brian Miller; former GSA administrator Martha Johnson; Jeff Neely, former regional commissioner of the Public Buildings Service, Pacific Rim Region; GSA Chief of Staff Michael Robertson; and David Foley, deputy commissioner of the GSA Public Buildings Service.
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