Mr. Chairman, with the exception of the limitation on open competition, a change that will hurt small business, I support H.R. 1670, the Federal Acquisition Reform Act of 1995. Chairman Clinger and I have worked cooperatively on this bill…

Mr. Chairman, I sincerely believe we can improve Government procurement. There are many provisions in this bill that were developed in a very bipartisan manner to reduce the number of steps in the procurement process. In fact, many of…

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…

They said it was less risky and more manageable to do business with a few selected vendors, instead of encouraging new and innovative qualified companies to enter the Federal marketplace. However, this lack of competition resulted in…

just 3 months ago, when H.R. 1670 was offered as an amendment to the Defense Authorization Act, I offered an amendment to Chairman Clinger's amendment to protect small business by providing full and open competition procurement. My…

Mr. Chairman, I am a bit confused when I hear the other side of the aisle talking about weakening amendments. It seems to me the amendments that I have before me are all amendments that are going to be very, very helpful. Mr. Chairman, it…

finally, my amendment empowers Federal agencies by giving them the authority to eliminate from cost and technical discussions and evaluations any proposal that clearly has no chance for award. In this way companies should be informed early…

I favor the bill as is written with one exception, that it does not contain full and open competition. Full and open competition would make this bill much better. It makes it workable. It erases the concern that the Government has, that…

I have some mixed feelings about bringing this bill to the floor at this time. As you all know, the House considered a bill virtually identical to H.R. 1670 on June 14, as an amendment to the National Defense Authorization Act. That…

I am delighted that the D.C. Subcommittee's ranking member, Eleanor Holmes Norton, and the subcommittee's chairman, Tom Davis have worked together in a bipartisan manner to develop H.R. 2108, a bill which would enable District government…

I rise in opposition to one more in an inevitable series of highly restrictive rules that have plagued this 104th Congress since its inception under the new Republican majority, the new rule governing debate on H.R. 1868, the Foreign…

today we are voting on the final item in the Republican's Contract on America, the so-called crown jewel of the 100 day take-money-from-schoolkids-and-give-it-to-the-rich extravaganza. Well, in case we weren't able to figure out the point…

I, too, favor this open rule, but I must say that I believe this bill should have been placed on the suspension calendar, having been reported by our committee, as amended, by a unanimous vote. However, late last week, I was informed that…

these amendments, while well intentioned, simply just do not work. As Chairman Horn said during full committee approval of this bill, and I quote: ``We have attempted to strike the right balance between Government power and individual…

I believe when the gentleman said the Federal Government is asking certain questions, the Federal Government is not asking the kinds of questions that the gentleman from Indiana [Mr. Souder] read, and also that we have copies of from the…

If the gentleman would not mind yielding for a second, I hope that we do not ask children these type of questions. But perhaps as a physician, perhaps you find that there is a need to do so. I think you have so stated. But these are the…

we should not second-guess the unanimous position of every expert who testified on this issue. We should not second guess the unanimous decision of the subcommittee and full committee against requiring prior written consent. In the absence…

Mr. Chairman, while I intend to vote against the gentleman's amendment, I understand his outrage. Mr. Souder distributed a copy of a questionnaire which was used at his children's school during the full committee markup of H.R. 1271. That…

H.R. 1271 as it now stands unamended, is a good bill that is intended to protect the privacy of families, by requiring parental consent for certain types of information asked of minors in federally funded surveys. Similar language was…

We can find out. I think they did. I think it was implied in this legislation. Wherever the Federal Government has asked for the consent, they have protected the right of written consent on matters of that nature, I believe. Mr. McINTOSH…

at the end of this week the Republicans will have a celebration of passage of items in their Contract on America in 100 days. The most important question we need to ask about the Republican contract is: Who wins, and who loses? The…

tonight many of us will watch the championship final of the NCAA men's basketball tournament. The matchup of last year's champion Arkansas Razorbacks and the return of the team with the most NCAA titles, the UCLA Bruins, will be an…

one of the most questionable, if not unethical practices in product liability suits today is the use of court orders to bar public disclosure of manufacturer's information concerning product safety. These orders result where, in a claim…

I am dumbfounded that this bill to restrict the rights of victims and consumers to adequate compensation for and reasonable protection from injury caused by unsafe, down right dangerous, and sometimes even deadly products has been named…

this week in my GOP colleagues' mad, frenzied dash to the 100-day finish line of the so- called Contract With America, this body is being presented with a series of bills that will effectively strip away the rights of average, hard-working…