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Thompson Pushes DHS on Contracts

By Paul Singer
Roll Call Staff
March 2, 2010, Midnight

House Homeland Security Chairman Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.) is on a mission to see the Department of Homeland Security and its largest contractors hire more small, minority-owned and women-owned companies to fulfill government contracts. He is also willing to dedicate significant resources of the committee and his own personal persuasion to pursuing this goal.

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