Reinventing Paperwork?: The Clinton-Gore Administration's Record on Paperwork Reduction : Hearing Before the Subcommittee on National Economic Growth, Natural Resources, and Regulatory Affairs of the Committee on Government Reform, House of Representatives, One Hundred Sixth Congress, Second Session, April 12, 2000 |
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Administration advisory committee agency's April 14 Attorney burden reduction burden-hour estimate Chief Information Officer collection of information Commission Committee on Government compliance Congress congressional contempt contempt of Congress Dan Burton DAVID VITTER Davis-Bacon Act Dennis Kucinich Department documents eliminate employees executive FACA federal paperwork fiscal year 1999 forms Government Reform governmentwide hearing HELEN CHENOWETH-HAGE Honorable David identify implementation impose unnecessary Increases at IRS initiatives Internal Revenue Service investigation IRS paperwork issue Kucinich laws legislative million burden hours million hours National Economic Growth Natural Resources OIRA OIRA's OMB's overly burdensome paperwork oversight paperwork burden Paperwork Reduction Act paperwork requirements percent program changes proposed questions reduce burden reduce paperwork regulations Regulatory Affairs Committee reporting request response Rossotti roundtable Service specific SPOTILA staff Statement Paperwork Reduction statutes statutory streamline Subcommittee on National subpoena Tax Return taxpayers testimony Thank Treas./IRS unnecessary or overly violations
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