The Freedom to E-file Act: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Department Operations, Oversight, Nutrition, and Forestry of the Committee on Agriculture, House of Representatives, One Hundred Sixth Congress, First Session, on H.R. 852, June 17, 1999 |
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Page 1 - Act (PL 106-222) requires the Department of Agriculture to establish an electronic filing and retrieval system to enable farmers and other...
Page 20 - As with the other witnesses, your written statements will be made part of the record. We will start with Ms.
Page 4 - STATEMENT OF HON. GREG WALDEN, A REPRESENTATIVE IN CONGRESS FROM THE STATE OF OREGON Mr. WALDEN. Thank you very much, Mr.
Page 7 - We are pleased to have you with us. Your written statement will be made part of the record.
Page 27 - It is estimated that the cost of Federal regulations on production agriculture exceed $20 billion annually. This estimate is based on farm production accounting for 3 percent of Gross Domestic Product and therefore 3 percent of the overall Federal regulatory burden of $688 billion. We believe that the share of total Federal regulatory costs borne by production agriculture is probably greater than $20 billion since farmers and ranchers are at the eye of the environmental regulatory storm due to our...
Page 6 - Not later than 180 days after the 3 date of enactment of this Act, the Secretary of...
Page 27 - Experts put the cost of federal regulations borne by the private productive economy at $688 billion annually— 20 times the size of the projected federal deficit for FY97 of $34 billion. This estimate is low because it does not include the cost of lost productivity. We estimate that the cost of federal regulations on production agriculture exceed $20 billion annually. This estimate...
Page 31 - Mr. Chairman and members of the Subcommittee. I appreciate the opportunity to meet with you today and discuss the...
Page 19 - Xow, if for some reason we have a reversal of what is going on now and something unexpected comes up: we are saying to Congress, we won't just go out and spend that $1 billion. We will come back to you and say : Here is what we have done in the test program, here are the results, and here are our intentions on procurement. So we aren't going to say we don't expect anything to go wrong just because things are going well. We are saying we will inform the Congress of any reversals. Mr. EDWARDS. Will...
Page 21 - If the answers to all of these questions are yes, then we are most definitely in business.