Subcommittee Hearings
Subcommittee on Contracting and Workforce
November 1, 2011
***Postponed***Protecting Small Business Contracting: Leadership Challenges at Cabinet-Level Agencies
The hearing will address the failure of the Department of Treasury to comply with Section 15(k) of the Small Business Act, and the consequences of that failure for small businesses. Section 15(k)(3) requires that the Director of the Office of Small and Disadvantaged Business Utilization “be responsible only to, and report directly to, the head of such agency or to the deputy of such head,” but the agencies in question have been found by the Government Accountability Office to not be in compliance. In early August 2011, Chairman Mick Mulvaney requested that four noncomplying agencies explain the steps they were taking to bring themselves in compliance, but one agency has declined to make substantive changes. Opening Statement:Witnesses and Testimony:
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