H.R.2551: To amend title 18, United States Code, to require Federal Prision Industries to compete of its Federal contracts to minimize unfair competition with private firms (depriving law-abiding workers of job opportunities), to save taxpayer dollars by empowering Federal contracting officers to be able to acquire commercial products that better meet agencies' needs, more quickly and at less cost without having to obtain permission from Federal Prison Industries, to further empower contracting officers to compel Federal Prison Industries to fully perform its contract obligations to the same extent as all other contractors, and for other purposes.

Bill Cosponsors

126 (51 Democrats, 1 Independent, 1 Independent Democrat, 74 Republicans)

• Barney Frank (D-Mass.)
• Michael Allen Collins (R-Ga.)
• Carolyn B. Maloney (D-N.Y.)
• Van Hilleary (R-Tenn.)
• Howard Coble (R-N.C.)
• Patrick J. Kennedy (D-R.I.)
• F. James Sensenbrenner (R-Wis.)
• William Clay (D-Mo.)
• Randy 'Duke' Cunningham (R-Calif.)
• John Conyers Jr. (D-Mich.)
• Saxby Chambliss (R-Ga.)
• Tim Roemer (D-Ind.)
• Lamar Smith (R-Texas)
• Martin Frost (D-Texas)
• Cass Ballenger (R-N.C.)
• Chet Edwards (D-Texas)
• Benjamin A. Gilman (R-N.Y.)
• Bob Stump (R-Ariz.)
• James A. Barcia (D-Mich.)
• David M. McIntosh (R-Ind.)
• Mike Doyle (D-Pa.)
• Mark Souder (R-Ind.)
• Debbie Stabenow (D-Mich.)
• Vernon J. Ehlers (R-Mich.)
• Robert A. Weygand (D-R.I.)
• Donald Manzullo (R-Ill.)
• Marion Berry (D-Ark.)
• Barbara L. Cubin (R-Wyo.)
• Bob Filner (D-Calif.)
• Fred Upton (R-Mich.)
• Lynn Woolsey (D-Calif.)
• Dave Camp (R-Mich.)
• Ron Klink (D-Pa.)
• Thomas W. Ewing (R-Ill.)
• Nathan Deal (R-Ga.)
• Joseph K. Knollenberg (R-Mich.)
• George R. Nethercutt (R-Wash.)
• Charles W. Norwood (R-Ga.)
• Bob Schaffer (R-Colo.)
• Thomas G. Tancredo (R-Colo.)
• Robert William Ney (R-Ohio)
• Edward Royce (R-Calif.)
• Sue Myrick (R-N.C.)
• Roscoe G. Bartlett (R-Md.)
• Tom Coburn (R-Okla.)
• John Linder (R-Ga.)
• John Shadegg (R-Ariz.)
• Sam Johnson (R-Texas)
• Jack Kingston (R-Ga.)
• John Nathan Hostettler (R-Ind.)
• Lee Terry (R-Neb.)
• John J. Duncan Jr. (R-Tenn.)
• Tom Bliley (R-Va.)
• James M. Talent (R-Mo.)
• Virgil H. Goode (R-Va.)
• Ed Bryant (R-Tenn.)
• Terry Everett (R-Ala.)
• Mark Adam Foley (R-Fla.)
• John Tanner (D-Tenn.)
• Ron Packard (R-Calif.)
• Jim McGovern (D-Mass.)
• Gilbert W. Gutknecht (R-Minn.)
• Joel Hefley (R-Colo.)
• Richard Hugh Baker (R-La.)
• Jack Metcalf (R-Wash.)
• Jack Quinn (R-N.Y.)
• Anne Meagher Northup (R-Ky.)
• Jo Ann Emerson (R-Mo.)
• Brian P. Bilbray (R-Calif.)
• Roy Blunt (R-Mo.)
• Charles W. Stenholm (D-Texas)
• Henry Bonilla (R-Texas)
• Bernard Sanders (ID-Vt.)
• James C. Greenwood (R-Pa.)
• Dennis J. Kucinich (D-Ohio)
• Ron Lewis (R-Ky.)
• Pat Danner (D-Mo.)
• James A. Leach (R-Iowa)
• Duncan L. Hunter (R-Calif.)
• Mike McIntyre (D-N.C.)
• Todd Tiahrt (R-Kan.)
• Tom Latham (R-Iowa)
• Richard M. Burr (R-N.C.)
• Max A. Sandlin (D-Texas)
• Ray H. LaHood (R-Ill.)
• Walter B. Jones (R-N.C.)
• Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.)
• Peter A. DeFazio (D-Ore.)
• Scott McInnis (R-Colo.)
• Luis V. Gutiérrez (D-Ill.)
• Jan Schakowsky (D-Ill.)
• Nick J. Rahall II (D-W.Va.)
• Bart Gordon (D-Tenn.)
• Zach Wamp (R-Tenn.)
• Frank Mascara (D-Pa.)
• Tom Lantos (D-Calif.)
• Harold E. Ford Jr. (D-Tenn.)
• Cynthia McKinney (D-Ga.)
• Robert A. Borski (D-Pa.)
• Bob Clement (D-Tenn.)
• Rod Blagojevich (D-Ill.)
• John M. McHugh (R-N.Y.)
• Gerald D. Kleczka (D-Wis.)
• Steven C. LaTourette (R-Ohio)
• Robert E. Cramer (D-Ala.)
• Larry Combest (R-Texas)
• Corrine Brown (D-Fla.)
• Stephanie Tubbs Jones (D-Ohio)
• Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio)
• Julia M. Carson (D-Ind.)
• Anna G. Eshoo (D-Calif.)
• Ron Kind (D-Wis.)
• Tammy Baldwin (D-Wis.)
• Baron P. Hill (D-Ind.)
• William J. Coyne (D-Pa.)
• David D. Phelps (D-Ill.)
• Thomas M. Davis (R-Va.)
• Phil English (R-Pa.)
• Danny K. Davis (D-Ill.)
• John Shimkus (R-Ill.)
• John W. Olver (D-Mass.)
• Kay Granger (R-Texas)
• William M. Thornberry (R-Texas)
• James H. Maloney (D-Conn.)
• Douglas K. Bereuter (R-Neb.)
• Frank A. LoBiondo (R-N.J.)

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