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Mike Levin: “The difference though again is that the Senator's bill has new language which has not interpreted failure to comply…”

On the recordJuly 17, 1995
The difference though again is that the Senator's bill has new language which has not interpreted failure to comply whereas the language, as the Senator points to in our bill, has been interpreted in a way which is significantly narrower than--may I say--what the Justice Department feels is likely or could be interpreted into the words ``failure to comply.'' That is the difference, that there is a new test, failure to comply, in the Senator's language and has not been made the subject of the kind of review under the Administrative Procedures Act.
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Mike Levin
Democratic · California

Editor's note · Context

Discussing differences between two legislative bills regarding compliance language.

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