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Daily Record Report             November 8, 2007 6:54 PM
Louis Llovio, Business Writer

A U.S. Senate committee has approved a bill that senators say would improve the process in which small businesses in Maryland are awarded federal government contracts.

Gloria Berthold, president of TargetGov at Marketing Outsource Associates Inc., a Baltimore government procurement consultant, said that while she said she applauded the Senate’s efforts, the bill lacked teeth.

She said government agencies are too short-handed and underfunded to do the oversight required by the new law or the existing ones.

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