Political Quotes

“I want to just address some of the concerns that my colleague, the gentleman from Virginia (Mr. Wolf), brought up; and I think we do share the same vision, the same objective in the legislation, because it is part of a test of civilized people as to how we are in regard to the treatment of crime and criminals. That is why we have put a number of different factors into H.R. 1829. The first thing is we do not take a meat axe to this. What we do is we say over a period of 5 years we phase out mandatory sourcing. We still allow Federal Prison Industries to compete for the business, but we put it on a level playing field for manufacturing organizations in America so that taxpayers at least have the opportunity to compete for this business. So it is a phase-out of mandatory sourcing over a period of 5 years.”