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On the recordSeptember 21, 2016
Because there are guidance documents that are going out that are not coming through OIRA, do you have a concern that there may be some guidances being promulgated and put out there that are economically significant that might bypass the CRA legal requirement for the Congressional Review Act?
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James Lankford
Republican · Oklahoma

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Lankford questions the potential bypassing of the Congressional Review Act by guidance documents.

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