Every day of this Congress has brought us face-to-face with tough decisions on spending cuts, cost-saving proposals, policies that encourage job creation and ways to preserve the American Dream for our posterity.

Thank you, Chairman Lankford, for all you are doing.

If enacted, this bill guarantees that all qualified contractors and their skilled work forces, regardless of labor affiliation, can compete on a level playing field.

H.R. 735, the Government Neutrality in Contracting Act, will prohibit executive agencies and recipients of Federal funds from requiring contractors to agree to PLAs.

It is clear now, more than ever, that each fiscal decision that Congress makes has an impact on the sustainability of America's prosperity.

All told, H.R. 735 will ensure that taxpayers get the best possible product at the best possible price.

Thank you, Ranking Member Connolly, and all the members of the subcommittee.

I ask that the members of the subcommittee support Mr. Sullivan's Government Neutrality in Contracting Act.

I think people are tuned in that this is costing, and everything that is done is passed down to consumers, the people.

With gasoline prices mounting another destructive attack on the American economy, unrest in the Middle East and North Africa reminding us how vulnerable the we are to supply shocks, and declining throughput in the Trans-Alaska Pipeline…

All told, this legislation will create over 500,000 jobs.