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On the recordOctober 7, 2004
This amendment seeks to create an information technology network of immense proportions but without significant resources and no logical or direct correlation to what actually would be needed to share information properly. The amendment overregulates the design of the network, it creates excessive reporting requirements and truly unrealistic implementation deadlines. The amendment would also create several layers of new bureaucracy, which is something that I have been speaking out about all day. No more bureaucracy. No more red tape. No more stovepipes. And that is what this creates.
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Pete Hoekstra
Michigan

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Opposing the Menendez amendment during a discussion on H.R. 10.

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