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“I want to stop the spread. They are picking homes like you, and I pick tomatoes in the grocery store.”
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On the recordApril 5, 2022
I passed the legislation to modernize the performance results legislation that President Clinton and Al Gore had set up in the 1990s.
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Henry Cuellar
Democratic · Texas
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Editor's note · Context

Cuellar highlights his past legislation aimed at improving performance measurement in government.

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