(Source: US House of Representatives Committee on Small Business) WASHINGTON- Today, the House Committee on Small Business Subcommittee on Contracting and Workforce and Subcommittee on Investigations, Oversight, and Regulations held a joint hearing to examine the ramifications of Executive Order 13,673, commonly known as the Administration's blacklisting proposal. The United States Department of Labor and Federal Acquisition Regulatory Council's implementation of this order threatens to 'blacklist' small businesses from competing for federal contracts. While the Administration justifies this proposal as a way to bring companies into compliance, in reality it is, as Angela Styles, chair at...
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