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Excerpt from Private Sector Comments on Congressional Procurement Reform Proposals and How They Will Affect Small Business: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Procurement, Taxation, and Tourism of the Committee on Small Business House of Representatives, One Hundred Third Congress, Second Session, Washington, DC, February 2, 1994
I just want to give you one more example of the extremes to which the Acquisition Reform Working Group would seek to carry the Congress in its goal, in its striving for commercial buying prae tices. It proposes to waive virtually all restraints on business be havior which traditionally have been considered unacceptable.
They would waive the restriction on providing gratuities, that is, bribes to contracting officers. They would waive the restriction against hiring felons convicted of contract fraud. They would waive Buy America.
This may be appropriate in their corporate culture. But again, I think that the members of this committee and the members of the public and certainly the small businesses that I represent would not want to see these practices applied in us. Procurement.
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