"This report does not support what you're saying on the pilot program. This report is fairly discouraging of PLAs."
"So the report wasn't consistent with the policy, and so the report is set aside."
"This is not anti-PLA to say they're in the toolbox."
"We want that to be available, not to dictate it."
"But by increasing the point scale on them, as we talked about before, it gives them an immediate advantage..."
"But the last thing we would want to do is to be able to try to put out the word and say this group gets a higher score based on the fact that they are unionized, and discourage other people from engag..."
"prepared statement of"
"It is my hope that we can also discern issues that must be addressed in a legislative solution to our unfunded mandates."
"What are your thoughts on the private sector and regulations that are coming down on them, as well as the public sector?"
"If I say that global warming is caused by manmade pollution, suddenly everything that we do that ever relates to global warming, it is we are saving the planet."
"But that is the challenge, because once you start getting into those assumptions and you start evaluating it, it is very difficult for me to be able to say let's hand that to an agency and if private ..."
"So it is down the hall, but it is still within the same agency."