Stephen Schooner

former Administrator for the OMB's Office of Procurement Law

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Co-Director of the Government Procurement Law Program at the George Washington University Law School; former Associate Administrator for Procurement Law and Legislation at the Office of Federal Procurement Policy in the Office of Management and Budget

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Blackwater USA —with more than a billion dollars in federal contracts—was on the carpet today on Capitol Hill.

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