William Clinger: “There is no bar to anybody who is, as my colleague knows, anyone can get in and bid on these Government procurements.”

In fact, the offsets can come, when this happens, if the President decides to waive it now, he, under this bill, would be required to provide the offset. We could make it very clear that they were not to be taken out of military spending…

As I indicated, this would also go into effect if the President would agree to the balanced-budget agreement.

I would just question the appropriateness of the inspector general making policy in these kinds of areas. It seems to me it is the policymakers of the Department of Defense who really should be paid attention to in this area.

I would indicate that I think a ``yes'' vote on this matter would in effect be saying that we would allow an unfunded mandate to be passed through, or open the door to passing through, an unfunded mandate to the States. Those who would…