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On the recordMarch 12, 1998
I would suggest that under existing law we already have laws to make the agencies do a better job, we do not need to pass another law that tells all 100 agencies to do their plans all over again. That is the point of my presentation here, that what we are asking the agencies to do is unfair. We are smearing the entire government by proposing this legislation be passed, and we are doing it in the name of efficiency. Where is the efficiency in asking 100 agencies to do their plans all over again, plans that they just completed about 6 months ago? It just defies logic. I would like to say that this is not a mystery process here in the House of Representatives. We just have to ask, does it make sense? That is what I ask. Does it make sense that 100 agencies all failed in providing their strategic plans? Does it make sense that we ask 100 agencies to do plans all over again?
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Dennis Kucinich
Independent · Ohio

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Opposing legislation requiring all federal agencies to redo their strategic plans.

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