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Liz Saville Roberts: obviously the rules implementing the Federal Agriculture Improvement and Reform Act will have a large economic impact on…

On the recordMarch 28, 1996
obviously the rules implementing the Federal Agriculture Improvement and Reform Act will have a large economic impact on the agricultural community and farmers. I ask the distinguished chairman of the Committee on the Judiciary, if the Department of Agriculture were to issue major rules under the Federal Agriculture Improvement and Reform Act, will they be held up for 60 calendar days by the Congressional Review Act?
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Liz Saville Roberts
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Questioning the impact of the Congressional Review Act on rules from the Federal Agriculture Improvement and Reform Act.

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