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House approves federal contracting reform bill (Reuters)
Filed: March 15th 2007: US

Reuters - The U.S. House of Representatives on
Thursday approved a bill to limit the use of noncompetitive
federal contracts in the wake of abuses in the Iraq war and the
Hurricane Katrina cleanup.

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