Nancy Kassebaum: “That is right, the competitive bidding is based on quality and cost effectiveness.”

I certainly understand and sympathize with the distinguished Senator from Alaska [Mr. Murkowski], who, as chairman of an authorizing committee, has before us an important bill on which time has been spent and many hearings have been held…

no, this is not another study. It is a sense-of-the-Senate resolution. So it does not have statutory authority as the language of the Senator from Oregon would have had. However, it does not call for another study. It simply says that the…

just to respond, we have considered this in the last Congress as well. We have not had a full-blown hearing but it is something Senator Metzenbaum, as part of the Labor Committee in the last Congress, raised. It has been under…

I would just like to give an example of why there is concern. A National Labor Relations Board administrative law judge has handed down a decision in the long-awaited Polaroid case. The Polaroid Co. has been heralded as one of America's…