Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) on Wednesday asked Pentagon Comptroller David Norquist during a Senate Budget Committee hearing to provide him with a report detailing how the Defense Department can effectively negotiate CEO salaries of defense contractors.
Norquist said he was unaware of anything the Defense Department could do to impact the compensation of CEOs at private companies, but said U.S. taxpayers “should be paying for the service that we receive.” READ MORE