David Cay Johnston: “There may be a court interpretation of that. But you have under your…”

On the recordJuly 17, 1995

There may be a court interpretation of that. But you have under your amendment a review of subsection (d), ``without observance of the procedure required by law.'' According to what you have said, you are going to review the procedure because that is what subsection (d) says. We do limit under our amendment. Our amendment is limited specifically to whether the final agency action is ``arbitrary and capricious.'' That is much narrower than that which you state. It is at least ambiguous.

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David Cay Johnston

West Virginia

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Discussing the limitations of an amendment related to agency action review.

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