Jaime Herrera Beutler: “We are all here just trying to serve the American people.”

You have got to get on TV, you've got to get on Twitter, you've got to call these people off.

I think my challenge is, is that they limit the pool of qualified bidders primarily to one stream of bidders.

In April, inflation was 8.3 percent, and the cost of food, housing, gas, energy, all of it is at record levels.

My opinion is this mandate is going to increase the cost of Federal construction projects, and it is going to curb competition.