[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 159 (2013), Part 5]
[House]
[Page 6385]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




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                             THE CLEAN ACT

  (Ms. KUSTER asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute.)
  Ms. KUSTER. Mr. Speaker, in recent years, the Federal Government has 
wasted millions of dollars maintaining empty bank accounts that serve 
no purpose. Last year, the Government Accountability Office found that 
the government was spending more than $170,000 maintaining over 28,000 
empty bank accounts at an annual cost of $2 million. That's 
inexcusable.
  No New Hampshire family or business would tolerate that type of 
waste, and neither should the government. That's why today I'm 
partnering with my Republican colleague, Representative Kevin Cramer, 
to introduce commonsense legislation that would put an end to this 
wasteful practice.
  This legislation won't solve our fiscal challenges, but the fact is 
the Federal Government shouldn't tolerate any waste, no matter how big 
or small.
  Let's prove to the American people that we're capable of coming 
together to cut the most obvious examples of waste by passing the CLEAN 
Act.

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