Pedro Sanchez: “I rise to talk in this House, but I felt a need to do that today to express my strong support for the Fazio-Everett…”

“I rise to talk in this House, but I felt a need to do that today to express my strong support for the Fazio-Everett amendment. This amendment simply strikes the unprecedented and reaching Hansen language that was adopted during the markup of the defense authorization bill. I join with the distinguished ranking member of the full committee, as well as Secretary of Defense William Cohen, in supporting this amendment. If we approve the current language in the defense bill, it would allow a government monopoly on depot maintenance work. It would also require the government to make overwhelming new capital investments in government facilities which would simply duplicate what exists in the private sector today. I urge my colleagues to join me in voting in favor of this amendment.”