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Howard P. "Buck" McKeon National Defense Authorization Act For Fiscal Year 2015

Floor Speech

By: Tom Cole
By: Tom Cole
Date: May 21, 2014
Location: Washington, DC
Issues: Business and Consumers

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Mr. Chairman, I have enormous respect for my friends from Kansas. We usually agree, but in this case, we don't.

I represent Tinker Air Force Base, which has 15,000 Federal civilian defense employees, along with thousands of private employees, working in contract facilities on and around the base. Usually, they work together, but sometimes, they compete for work. When they do, that work should go to whomever can do the work better and cheaper.

This amendment overrides every other law in the book, in terms of managing the defense workload by prohibiting the transfer of the workload from the private to the public sector, even when the public sector can do it better and cheaper.

That, in my view is inefficient, it is counterproductive, and ultimately it is unfair. We should allow the work to flow to those best able to complete it, and we should rely on the services to actually make the decisions in this regard.

So I urge the rejection of the amendment.

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