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              <text>Amendment SA 4745 proposed by Senator Reid for Senator Carper. (consideration: CR S8653; text: CR S8653) To provide for the establishment of a technology advisory committee and to strike the requirement that the Director of the Census submit a budget request each year to the Secretary of Commerce for inclusion in the President's budget request for that year.</text>
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