Federal law does not keep a contractor from looking on a case-by-case basis.
Are you prepared to deal with preapprenticeship programs as well as with apprentices, already qualified apprentices?
This administration, given the circumstances that have forced it into raising sky high deficit, needs to be leveraging every authority it ca...
I am certainly willing to talk to the appropriators as we go through this prospect.
That is now a requirement. This started as a requirement in this region.
This administration understands return to the government.
It is totally unacceptable and where we find it, we have to stop it and call the agency to account.
I can't hold you responsible. I do want your commitment that on your watch you will never simply supercede language from this Committee with...
Some developer somewhere has been able to get the government to plop down money to rent his building for 15 years and he did not have to com...
So in construction, Mr. Peck, if we gave credit for the subs hiring or, excuse me, engaging in small business contracting, wouldn't that be ...
You ought to tell OMB that we know how to operate when an agency doesn't do what we urgently believe must be done.
The permission was granted by the Congress of the United States for the GSA to use 412 authority.
I am trying to figure out how much trouble we are in as we lease more and more space.
We take very seriously unauthorized matters.
Because we are the authorizers and the taxpayers tell us that wherever it is, it has to be the best deal for the taxpayers.
I don't see why at least in contracting it wouldn't make sense to do.
If this money does not reach a small business contract, then the funds over which we have oversight will have been a partial failure.
You should have and we need to know in 30 days whether or not there is a small business plan for the spending of these stimulus dollars.
