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Mark Souder: “Or they would like to bid for, say, military training base equipment at a housing unit, tables, sofas, other things…”

On the recordApril 30, 2003
Or they would like to bid for, say, military training base equipment at a housing unit, tables, sofas, other things, file cabinets, whatever it is; and they go in, and because of the points that are in effect given to prison industries, that even though they are lower priced and better quality, they might not even be competing with Federal Prison Industries; they might be competing with a Canadian or foreign-owned company? So that not only are products made unfairly in prison, but the wholesaling and marketing profits are going to a company from overseas, knocking American law-abiding workers out. So we have a double whammy that would certainly not be allowed in any kind of international trade agreement.
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Mark Souder
Indiana

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Discussing the impact of prison industries on American workers and competition.

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