Snowe Files Amendments to Defense Bill; Expanding Opportunities for Small Business, Service-Disabled-Owned Firms Targeted

WASHINGTON, June 16 /U.S. Newswire/ -- U.S. Senator Olympia J. Snowe (R-Maine), Chair of the Senate Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship, has filed a series of amendments to the "National Defense Authorization Act" for Fiscal Year 2005, S.2400, in an effort to expand contracting opportunities for small businesses and to encourage federal agencies to place new emphasis on contracting with small businesses owned by service-disabled veterans.

One of Snowe's amendments, No. 3344, offered by Senator Robert C. Byrd (D-WV) for himself, Snowe and several members of the Small ...