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Chris Sununu: “I think, unfortunately, dealing with this legislation has laid to bare some of the weaknesses and problems with the way…”

On the recordApril 24, 2007
I think, unfortunately, dealing with this legislation has laid to bare some of the weaknesses and problems with the way we are organized in Congress because it has been, unfortunately, an inefficient process in many ways. There are five or six different committees that have jurisdiction in different areas of this legislation. They all want to try to leave their mark on the legislation. As a result, the Senator from Tennessee and others have had to deal with duplication and overlap in many cases with initiatives begun by different committees that have effectively the same goal and the same end. Over the past 12 or 18 months, I think they have eliminated a number of these problems from the legislation but many remain.
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Chris Sununu
Republican · New Hampshire

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Discussing the challenges of organizing legislation in Congress.

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