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David Price: “As a matter of fact, this amendment is drafted very carefully to avoid redundancy. It's crafted to deal with a separate…”

On the recordMay 10, 2007
As a matter of fact, this amendment is drafted very carefully to avoid redundancy. It's crafted to deal with a separate area, a different area from those areas covered in the bill itself. And it mandates a reporting requirement, not to add work to the Executive Branch; to ensure that we get the information we need to do our job. Surely, no one would argue that Congress shouldn't be able to assess whether our approach to intelligence is effective or to conduct oversight on the way billions of dollars in taxpayer funds are expended each year. We're not establishing new regulations. We are simply requiring contractors to report on their activity.
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David Price
Democratic · North Carolina

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Discussing an amendment related to oversight and reporting requirements for intelligence activities.

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