Senate Proceeding on Jul 23rd, 2009 :: 9:26:05 to 9:28:00
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Lindsey Graham: for those reasons i oppose the amendment and urge my colleagues to also oppose it. i yield the flo a senator: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from south carolina. mr. graham have just a moment here. i'd like to echo the sentiments senator webb. we've been working together on this. and i do very much appreciate senator isakson, i

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Speech By: Lindsey Graham

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Lindsey Graham: this is a big complicated and there are parochial interests involved, and i totally understand the dli dilemma we're in. the fy 2008 defense authorization would grant a five-year waiver to the bury amendment for the procurement fire resistant rayon.

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Lindsey Graham: the isakson amendment permanently extends this waiver and will end all efforts to produce a domestic material to make military uniforms. i respectfully oppose the amendment. we're procuring the material from europe. there is no source of domestic rayon. neither congress nor d.o.d. has issued a determination or finding that the domestic market

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Lindsey Graham: lacks sufficient products that could perform the desired by d.o.d. this amendment unfairly excludes, in my opinion, u.s. manufacturers from competing for d.o.d. procurements an improperly since it has flame resistant

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Lindsey Graham: cotton d.o.d. to have domestic fabric from foreign manufacturers vietle d.o.d.'s statutory mandate to use performance rather than materials specifications and to seek free and fair and open competion whenever practical. instead of permanently extending a waiver that has three years

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Lindsey Graham: remaing, we should continue to let the technologies an fabrics developn reassess where we are in one or two years. i think