This legislation is a good bill. It is outstanding legislation, and I want to compliment the leadership of this committee. A number of people have extolled the virtues of this bill as far as efficiencies are concerned. A number of people have extolled its virtues as far as making a system that has been something of a maze a much more comprehensible process.
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