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The Berry Amendment (USC, Title 10, Section 2533a), requires the Department of Defense to give preference in procurement to domestically produced, manufactured, or home grown products, most notably food, clothing, fabrics, and specialty metals. Congress originally passed domestic source restrictions as part of the 1941 Fifth Supplemental DOD Appropriations Act in order to protect the domestic industrial base in the time of war. The Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement (DFARS) was amended to include exceptions for the acquisition of food, speciality metals, and hand or measuring tools when needed to support contingency operations or when the use of other-than-competitive procedures is based on an unusual and compelling urgency. The United States Code (U.S.C.) is a compilation and codification of the general and permanent federal Law of the United States. ... The United States Department of Defense, abbreviated DoD or DOD and sometimes called the Defense Department, is a civilian Cabinet organization of the United States government. ... For the movie, see 1941 (film) 1941 (MCMXLI) was a common year starting on Wednesday. ... This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ...
Info culled from: http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/natsec/RL31236.pdf
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A synopsis from www.acq.osd.mil
Some facts from AMTAC, a pro-Berry Amendment trade union
This amendment would provide for a real Medicare prescription drug benefit and save the Nation's taxpayers a minimum of $40 billion a year in the process.
This amendment would allow beneficiaries the option of changing plans once in 2006 if they have made a poor choice, and there is no possible way that they could have known it was a poor choice when they made it.
If all of them were part of this plan, it would save $100 billion a year, and they would still get their medicine cheaper than what they are paying for it right now.
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