You were one of the two cosponsors. You created it. You nurtured it. You inspired it.
the buying power of the United States, based on that, the United States would certainly also be entitled to those discou...
I think my predecessor, Senator Truman, would have an awfully hard time getting his arms around how big this problem has...
Right, because by the time it gets to where the rubber meets the road, it is two or three degrees removed.
Well, that may be true, but it seems to me that would have a lot more credibility if we took the rebate issue off the ta...
Clearly, this system is not working in their favor, because they cannot afford--an independent producer cannot afford to...
We obviously have--my State, for example, we used to have 27,000 feeder pig operations in Missouri.
that could be this no value added addition of some company that is there just to be an excuse for a place to park the re...
Well, we are a big customer. We ought to have more leverage.
So they are actually encouraging their folks to utilize those contracts that are most rebate-heavy internally and they a...
Or you get a bigger bonus at Christmas if you buy more of this stuff.
I met with over 50 small businesses. And I had given them questionnaires, and I asked them to tell me, what regulations ...
Was the contract flawed in the PWC case? Was there a flaw in the way the contract was drafted?
So what they do is they force a price increase on the local market so that they can take a piece of it?
It is with a sense of urgency that I realize we have to hold on to the ability of independent food producers to get a pr...
So on accounting, they can keep track of it if it is going to be their money. They just cannot keep track of it if it is...
Are they giving bonuses based on this? Do you know?
If it has worked, then that is the time that we need to migrate it over to Department of Defense.
