Political Quotes

Mark Souder: We do not know the way this is going. People in my hometown who have worked all their career building furniture, all of…

On the recordApril 30, 2003
We do not know the way this is going. People in my hometown who have worked all their career building furniture, all of a sudden are put out from somebody from Federal Prison Industries. It shows graphically, if one visualizes it, what if your local park ranger works for Federal Prison Industries? Or what about if somebody doing the typing in for accountants would be?
Said by
Mark Souder
Indiana

Editor's note · Context

Discussing the impact of Federal Prison Industries on local jobs.

Share

More from Mark Souder

Mar 31, 2009

I don't hear a lot of people in my district, wandering around, going, 'Oh, you know, I don't like these fusion centers.'

congress.gov
Mar 24, 2009

Let me first ask a quick question on the, separate from the structural problems, isn't it, as far as the deficit that you are running in the relationship to income and so one, hasn't it always been true in the Post Office that the money is…

congress.gov
Mar 20, 2010

Veterans get ping-ponged back and forth. Right now in Indiana, we're online in this budget to get a new hospital in Fort Wayne. We haven't had investment since before World War II. But they get ping-ponged down to Indianapolis because of…

govinfo.gov
Mar 16, 2010

Back when Thomas Jefferson did the first Louisiana Purchase, he got all parts of 13 States for, what's in inflation-adjusted dollars, $150 million today. When the Senate health care bill passed, it cost $300 million to just get and buy one…

govinfo.gov

Other voices in this conversation