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Senate votes to change rules for Transportation Security Admin.

Set-Aside Alert, August, 2007

The Senate has voted to require the Transportation Security Administration to abide by the Federal Acquisition Regulation.

TSA operates under its own procurement rules, inherited from its former parent agency, the Federal Aviation Administration.

On July 26 the Senate unanimously accepted the amendment to the Homeland Security appropriations bill sponsored by Small Business Committee Chairman John Kerry, D-MA, and the committee's ranking Republican, Olympia Snowe of Maine.

Kerry said, "Why should an agency fraught with wasteful spending and contract mismanagement continue to receive a free ride while every other major federal agency must abide by the law? The taxpayers deserve better. Our small businesses deserve better."

The $40.6...

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