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“Mr. Speaker, I am very pleased to bring to the floor today the conference agreement on the reauthorization of the Paperwork Reduction Act. It is the first reauthorization since the act expired in 1989. The House version, I would remind my colleagues, of this bill was approved by an overwhelming vote, a unanimous vote, of 418 to nothing. The conference report very closely resembles the excellent provisions which were included in our original bill. There are several provisions which I would just like to discuss for the Record. First, the conference bill reauthorizes the appropriation for the Office of Management and Budget's Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, so-called OIRA, for 6 years, OIRA is the key office responsible for implementing the provisions of the Contract With America's regulatory reduction goals which are moving through this Congress. Second, the bill strengthens the requirements of existing law to ensure that agencies develop low-burden, better-quality collections of information that in particular reduce the compliance requirements and paperwork costs for small businesses.”