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John W. Peterson: “If the gentleman will yield there, I would like to ask this question of the gentleman from Michigan, who is our…”

On the recordMarch 4, 1998
If the gentleman will yield there, I would like to ask this question of the gentleman from Michigan, who is our education expert; if we had a sunset provision in all 700-some programs in the Department of Education, the gentleman's committee would be pretty busy, would it not, reviewing all those as their times came due?
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John W. Peterson
Pennsylvania

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Questioning the impact of sunset provisions on Department of Education programs.

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