Project Katrina

$145 billion in federal contracts were awarded without competitive bidding in fiscal 2005, more than double the $67 billion in fiscal 2000. Yet at the same time, "Failures of oversight into contracting procedures have made it possible for fraud, cronyism, and corruption to become prevalent in government," according to a new report by Center for American Progress Senior Fellow Scott Lilly. The report is going to be released to the public on Monday. It will be interesting to see how many of these contracts were related to Katrina.