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Pete Hoekstra: “There are bureaucrats at every level. There are over 5,000 in the Department of Education, which administers about 260…”

On the recordApril 30, 1996
There are bureaucrats at every level. There are over 5,000 in the Department of Education, which administers about 260 of these programs. There are bureaucrats at the local level who are trying to figure out what is coming from Washington.
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Pete Hoekstra
Michigan

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Discussing the role of bureaucrats in the Department of Education.

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