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Mark Souder: “I know the gentleman is a little more liberal than I am in some of this. I do not believe they should be competing at…”

On the recordApril 30, 2003
I know the gentleman is a little more liberal than I am in some of this. I do not believe they should be competing at all. It is particularly absurd to say that they are going to get a price advantage, and they get the regulations relaxed and they get the price advantage and the quality advantage. I would make it so they cannot flat out compete, but we have to work some kind of a compromise, because clearly, this has been very difficult for many years. We have laws that say that companies cannot illegally dump from overseas. You cannot come in where the government is subsidizing. Why do these laws not apply here and how would the Justice Department defend themselves when this cannot be done in any other category except by prisons?
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Mark Souder
Indiana

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Discussing competition and regulations related to prison industries.

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