Amendment No. 3058

Floor Speech

AMENDMENT NO. 3058

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Mr. THUNE. Madam President, the Kennedy-Mikulski amendment is intended to cause the A-76 process to become so cumbersome and expensive it would effectively eliminate the ability of the Federal Government to conduct any future A-76 competitions. What it specifically does is it mandates private contractors match Government health and retirement benefits.

DOD alone has saved taxpayers over $5 billion as a result of competitions completed between fiscal year 2001 and fiscal year 2006. DOD expects these savings to grow to over $9 billion after the completion of all planned competitions initiated in fiscal year 2007 are completed.

Right now the Government bidders win over 80 percent of the competitions. This can hardly be characterized as an unfair process, as supporters of this amendment portray it. It is designed to save taxpayer dollars. It has--$5 billion over the past 5 years.

This amendment makes it so cumbersome, by mandating the private contractors match Government health and retirement benefits, that the A-76 process will be completely undermined.

I urge my colleagues to vote against this amendment.

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