On the recordSeptember 13, 1995
This bill does not preserve full and open competition. What it does is put a statutory bait and switch on the House and on the American public. I think that we cannot do those kinds of things. We must in fact vote for the Collins-Meyers amendment, because we want to be fair, we want to do the right thing by small business, we want to do the right thing by large business, we want to do the right thing by American business. We want everybody to have an opportunity to play a part as being vendors for the American dollar. We are all taxpayers here. Everybody who pays taxes, everybody who pays taxes one way or the other has a right to have a small business. They have a right to have a low cost. They have a right to have the Government accept their bids and to be looked at carefully. They do not have the right, they do not have the right to have somebody just say arbitrarily that we do not want to take your bid.
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