{"id":1711,"date":"2013-08-29T07:57:01","date_gmt":"2013-08-29T02:27:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/news\/2013\/08\/29\/jail-break-furniture-makers-fight-prison-preference\/"},"modified":"2013-08-29T07:57:01","modified_gmt":"2013-08-29T02:27:01","slug":"jail-break-furniture-makers-fight-prison-preference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/articles\/jail-break-furniture-makers-fight-prison-preference\/","title":{"rendered":"Jail break? Furniture makers fight prison preference"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>by Matt Evans<br \/>\n Furniture manufacturers hoping to win greater access to the huge federal government purchasing market are hopeful that a<br \/>\n                        <!--adsense--><br \/>\n\t\t <!--more--><br \/>\nreform bill aimed at ending preferences for products made by the Federal Prison Industries program will pass before the end of the current Congress.<\/p>\n<p> That bill, which would erase a requirement that government agencies shopping for goods or services go to the prison manufacturing program first, has passed through the Judiciary Committee and is awaiting action by the full House. A similar bill passed the House by a wide margin in the last Congress, but did not receive a full Senate vote. If the bill doesn&#8217;t win approval by both chambers this year, supporters will have to start over with the next Congress.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Matt Evans Furniture manufacturers hoping to win greater access to the huge federal government purchasing market are hopeful that a<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-furniture-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1711","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1711"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1711\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indonesia-furniture.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}