"What you are doing is you are favoring one bidder over another."
"I see it as exclusionary. I don't see it as increasing the field of bidders."
"If it ain't broke, don't fix it. And I'm trying to understand--and believe me, I'm not coming here representing Republicans, and I hope that this panel isn't about Republicans versus the Democrats."
"So if that's part of what the proposal is, that's not really trying to get to the best price."
"I've watched it happen. I've lost out on too many bids where there was exclusionary language in there."
"my concern has always been in the private sector, that where is the private sector's role on these committees and when do we get a chance to weigh in?"
"Let's get their input before we impose regulations and costs to them that are really burdensome."
"I want to ask you is there any remedial process at all, having sat through many, many, many, many audits myself..."
"As evidence of Executive Order 13563 in President Obama's recent announcement that he will propose a package of regulations to delineate in the coming weeks, would you agree that the President has cle..."
"I would suggest to you that is not always the case."
"It is the scope of overreach and over-involvement that's killing all of this."