Political Quotes

“No. There is a reason it is called mandatory sourcing. It is not preferential sourcing, where there is a scoring system and if you are within 5 or 10 percent of the private sector price you have to buy it from us. It is not preferential competition. It is mandatory sourcing. You must buy from Federal Prison Industries. If you want a waiver or seek a waiver, Federal Prison Industries determines whether you will get it. It is absolutely outrageous. And I just want to mention one other thing the gentleman talked about. The inertia, the momentum where we build up this prison industrial complex; 111 different factories: Alderson, West Virginia; Atlanta, Georgia; Beaumont, Texas; Butler, North Carolina; Dublin, California; Edgefield, South Carolina; Fort Dix, New Jersey; Greenville, Illinois; Jessup, Georgia; Leavenworth, Kansas; Lee, Virginia; Manchester, Kentucky; Oakdale, Louisiana; Pollock, Louisiana; Ray Brook, New York; Safford, Arizona; Sandstone, Minnesota; Seagoville, Texas; Terre Haute, Indiana; Tucson, Arizona; Minnesota; Mississippi; Texas; Connecticut; New Jersey; Kentucky; California; Pennsylvania; Illinois; Tennessee; New York. 111 different factories. Absolutely they are building it up. So we have this momentum put in place that just wants to gobble up more and more business. They want to grow and grow, grow by 30 percent after they have grown by 16 percent.”