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GSA watchdog: Employees flooding hotline to report abuse

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    Senate panel urges GSA to 'clean house'

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The other big scandal out there there are new calls for the GSA to quote clean house.

At the upper levels of that organization a whistleblower hotline.

Has now been put in place and asked triggering a whole new sat.

And investigations into this agency he got more important is calling into the report other instances of taxpayer abuse beyond the federal agencies known Vegas spending scandal latency.

Wherever.

In video -- Peter -- joins me now live in Washington since you tell us about this tip line.

Martha the GSA's inspector general said yesterday he doesn't know what they'll find from -- tip line but it hasn't been pretty and you get a good idea of what he means.

When he compares some of his employees to one of the most notorious gangsters.

Of -- Time.

-- sudden Sutton was asked -- body rob banks he said that's where the money yes.

And part of the problem is a part of the reason there -- a lot of crime and fraud waste and abuse it GSA is a lot of money flows through GSA.

During that hearing a clown and a mind reader showed up outside the capitol asking the GSA to hired them at their next big conference inside though.

Not as many laps as lawmakers from the left and the right questioned.

The GSA's relevancy.

The expression is fool me once.

You know OK but again and again.

-- -- scandals.

Three administrations.

Under both Republicans and Democrats there's been of abuse.

Disrupted the GSA over a number of decades.

You know would it not be fair that -- -- to ask his GSA outlived its usefulness -- a federal agency.

And the GSA has over 121000.

Employees so these reforms the senators say that they want will impact a lot of people are -- -- yes they say about these calls to disband their whole agency based on our lists.

The acting administrator basically says that without the GSA the entire government would start spending irresponsibly.

We listen.

Having a single accountable agency that can aggregate the expenses of the government.

And and use the scale of the government to get the best possible price for the government.

I think that that has value today as much as it did back when the Hoover commission first proposed -- and president Truman set up the TSA.

And the hearings on the hill are all wrapped up for now.

-- -- some pretty important questions about how many of these agencies we actually need in place Peter thank you very much we'll season.

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