Mark Souder: “The extraordinary thing here is that if they can meet these standards, that the Federal procurement officers would like…”

“The extraordinary thing here is that if they can meet these standards, that the Federal procurement officers would like to do this. And they are doing this, as he has so eloquently pointed out, that they do not have OSHA, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration laws that say you got to have this over here and this over here. Nobody walks into their plant, and I have had OSHA come into little plants in my district much smaller than the House floor saying, you do not have your exits marked. You do not have this kind of thing over here and threaten to shut them down or fine them. They do not have any of that kind of pressure. They do not have minimum wage standards. They do not have civil rights standards to see which percentage of the population is at which direction. Often these institutions are violators of even laws on water and air pollution. They do not have the same pressures that you put on the private sector. And still the private sector makes it for less price with better quality.”