Rick Larsen actually said...

it is extremely important that these small and medium-sized businesses still have an opportunity to participate in contracting.

DOD spends nearly $23 billion per year dealing with corrosion. That's $23 billion out of our defense budget that we're not spending on our t...

Frankly, I don't mind that one of the purposes of the office is to count those numbers, be sure the goals are being met.

Just an observation in the first 8 to 10 years of this decade when there seemed to be relative plenty to the defense budget, we were getting...