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On the recordApril 30, 2003
That is right. Exactly. The gentleman from Georgia (Mr. Collins), he has been just a yeoman on this for the last 5 years. But what really got him interested was a small company in his district which made a very specialize product, missile containers. Well, Federal Prison Industries thought that would be a nice business to get in. How do they justify getting into the missile container business? They said, well, we are going to go into the container business. So we are going to take a very small piece of the container business so obviously it is a minimal impact on jobs in that industry.
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Pete Hoekstra
Michigan

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Discussing the impact of Federal Prison Industries on the missile container business.

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