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Ron Johnson: “We should break [the Department of Defense] into accountable…”

Featuring: Ron Johnson, Republican | U.S. Senate, Wisconsin

Senator Johnson at HSGAC

Published May 13, 2014 | Video Starts at 03:01

Okay, that's our current year of 2012. Fair enough. That won't be taken. It won't be counted against your time. … We should break [the Department of Defense] into accountable component parts for audits. … Their revenue exceeds $450 billion per year. They've got 2.2 million employees, 1.3 million just here in the U.S. they have to go through an audit, and they do it successfully as all kinds of. (03:01–03:05)

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Asserts that the Department of Defense should be divided into parts for better audit accountability.

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“Walmart is [audited]... Their revenue exceeds $450 billion per year. They've got 2.2 million employees, 1.3 million just here in the U.S.”
Senator Johnson at HSGAC | Uploaded May 13, 2014 | 03:04-03:15
“The reason we don't have an audit for the Defense Department is because we've been pursuing what should be a requirement, audit readiness.”
Senator Johnson at HSGAC | Uploaded May 13, 2014 | 00:33-00:41
“We should use audit as a real management tool [in the Department of Defense].”
Senator Johnson at HSGAC | Uploaded May 13, 2014 | 01:47-01:51
“If back in 1994, you would have just started conducting audits... Why didn't we do that?”
Senator Johnson at HSGAC | Uploaded May 13, 2014 | 04:31-04:40
“Certainly in public accounting or public companies, they've got the pressure. If they don't do it, they're going to go to jail, they're…”
Senator Johnson at HSGAC | Uploaded May 13, 2014 | 05:34-05:42
“How much of the Defense Department has undergone an audit?”
Senator Johnson at HSGAC | Uploaded May 13, 2014 | 06:42-06:45
“In a public company, you'd audit a division or a department and you knock it down to small enough component parts.”
Senator Johnson at HSGAC | Uploaded May 13, 2014 | 07:45-07:52
“The goal of an audit is to provide management information.”
Senator Johnson at HSGAC | Uploaded May 13, 2014 | 08:33-08:37
“My approach is conduct the audit and use the management results.”
Senator Johnson at HSGAC | Uploaded May 13, 2014 | 09:08-09:12
“You're never going to get an unqualified opinion if you don't have prior years experience.”
Senator Johnson at HSGAC | Uploaded May 13, 2014 | 11:21-11:25
“Once you start doing it, they'll be accountable and they'll get into line.”
Senator Johnson at HSGAC | Uploaded May 13, 2014 | 12:39-12:43
“Government shutdowns and budget dysfunction disrupt the ability to obtain an audit.”
Senator Johnson at HSGAC | Uploaded May 13, 2014 | 14:34-14:45
“The private sector manages audits despite uncertainty and disruptions.”
Senator Johnson at HSGAC | Uploaded May 13, 2014 | 14:48-14:53
“In my plastics manufacturing business, we required every operator to attach their initials to every roll of plastic they produced.”
Senator Johnson at HSGAC | Uploaded May 13, 2014 | 16:05-16:14
“It's going to be a report that holds people accountable so you can work through that process to actually, you know, squeeze efficiencies out…”
Senator Johnson at HSGAC | Uploaded May 13, 2014 | 18:07-18:17
“In the private sector, you can have an assembly of hundreds of individual divisions all being audited, all being held accountable.”
Senator Johnson at HSGAC | Uploaded May 13, 2014 | 18:46-18:54
“It's been going on for 20 years, it doesn't seem like it's a manageable process yet.”
Senator Johnson at HSGAC | Uploaded May 13, 2014 | 19:32-19:36
“How much are we spending trying to get audit ready?”
Senator Johnson at HSGAC | Uploaded May 13, 2014 | 20:38-20:41
“We should transfer a private sector model to the Department of Defense for audits.”
Senator Johnson at HSGAC | Uploaded May 13, 2014 | 22:15-22:40