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On the recordMarch 27, 2023
Back in 2010, I changed legislation that modernized the performance, results-oriented government legislation that got passed in the 1990s.
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Henry Cuellar
Democratic · Texas
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Cuellar discusses his past legislative efforts to modernize government performance measures.

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