7:55 pm, May 16, 2012

Senate committee approves OFPP nominee, four other bills

In a flurry of activity, the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee approved Joe Jordan to head the Office of Federal Procurement Policy along with bills toallow domestic partners of federal employees access to benefits and to block the White House from requiring government contractors to disclose political contributions.

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left quotation marksWe seem to have gotten a nice cross section of vendors, some current ones and some we've never heard of. I don't want to put too much emphasis on those meetings. It's the first step of a many step process.right quotation marks

-- Joanne Woytek
SEWP program manager
NASA

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