Political Quotes

“tonight I rise to set in context a bill that I introduced with my colleagues, the gentleman from Massachusetts (Mr. Frank), the gentlewoman from New York (Mrs. Maloney), the gentleman from Georgia (Mr. Collins), the gentleman from Wisconsin (Mr. Sensenbrenner), and the gentleman from Michigan (Mr. Conyers), along with 98 other cosponsors just before the Easter recess. The bill is H.R. 1829. It deals with an issue of reforming Federal Prison Industries. Some of our colleagues may ask, what is the importance of this bill? Or, what are you trying to get accomplished? Let me put that in a framework. What is Federal Prison Industries? Federal Prison Industries is a corporation, and many of the documents and many of the talking points that I will be using tonight come out of the annual report, which was just released by Federal Prison Industries within the last couple of weeks. But Federal Prison Industries was established on May 27, 1930 when Congress enacted H.R. 7412. One of the key provisions was to 'reduce to a minimum competition with private industry or free labor.'”