Federico E. [i.e. F.] Peña Nomination: Hearing Before the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, United States Senate, One Hundred Fifth Congress, First Session, on the Nomination of Federico E. [i.e. F.] Peña to be Secretary of the Department of Energy, January 30, 1997, Volume 4 |
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... initiatives , just as the Congress defeated the President's proposal , when he first came into office , to establish a Btu tax . But as Vice President and Under Secretary of State , Al Gore and Tim Wirth are now pursuing their agenda in ...
... initiatives , just as the Congress defeated the President's proposal , when he first came into office , to establish a Btu tax . But as Vice President and Under Secretary of State , Al Gore and Tim Wirth are now pursuing their agenda in ...
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... initiatives— haphazardly stitched together , lacking any coherent theme and tacked collectively into a single , unwieldy mass of bureaucracy . It simply has lost its original mission . What we have seen in recent years is the evolution ...
... initiatives— haphazardly stitched together , lacking any coherent theme and tacked collectively into a single , unwieldy mass of bureaucracy . It simply has lost its original mission . What we have seen in recent years is the evolution ...
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... initiatives to reengineer processes , privatize major functions , overhaul the Department's contracting practices , and accomplish the hard job of downsizing through its strategic alignment initiative . The result is a Department that ...
... initiatives to reengineer processes , privatize major functions , overhaul the Department's contracting practices , and accomplish the hard job of downsizing through its strategic alignment initiative . The result is a Department that ...
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... initiative . Secretary O'Leary made great progress in declas- sifying information , enhancing public participation in the Depart- ment's decisionmaking while maintaining protection of information and facilities that are truly sensitive ...
... initiative . Secretary O'Leary made great progress in declas- sifying information , enhancing public participation in the Depart- ment's decisionmaking while maintaining protection of information and facilities that are truly sensitive ...
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... initiatives to reengineer processes , privatize major functions , overhaul the De- partment's contracting practices and accomplish the hard job of downsizing through its Strategic Alignment Initiative . The result is a Department that ...
... initiatives to reengineer processes , privatize major functions , overhaul the De- partment's contracting practices and accomplish the hard job of downsizing through its Strategic Alignment Initiative . The result is a Department that ...
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