Pete Hoekstra: “You say, well, why do the Federal procurement officers not support your bill? You know what? They do. Because as this…”

“You say, well, why do the Federal procurement officers not support your bill? You know what? They do. Because as this Congress asks different agencies to do more with less, the Federal procurement officers come back and say, hey, we can buy better goods and services from the private sector for a lower price, but you make us go to Federal Prison Industries. If we are going to have to use Federal Prison Industries, then do not make us do more with less because we cannot buy the best products and we cannot buy the services. You are asking us to get more efficient and more effective in using vendors who do not meet the standards that we need to compete.”