08/07/2000
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"The executive branch continues to implement my policy of maintaining the number of advisory committees within the ceiling of 534 required by Executive Order 12838 of February 10, 1993."
"Savings achieved through elimination of discretionary committees during fiscal year 1996 totalled $2.5 million."
"The reductions would also force ATF to curtail its drug-related law enforcement activities."
"I am submitting the Twenty-Fifth Annual Report on Federal Advisory Committees."