For Immediate Release
Office of the Press Secretary
June 28, 2002
Statement by the President
I am pleased to sign into law H.R. 327, the "Small Business
Paperwork Relief Act of 2002." This legislation will help achieve an
important objective of my Administration to reduce the cost and burden
on small businesses of government paperwork and increase the resources
available to small businesses to create jobs and economic growth.
Section 3 of the bill creates a new section 3520 in title 44 of the
United States Code to create an interagency task force on information
collection and dissemination to help the heads of departments and
agencies reduce the government burden on small businesses. Section
3520 purports to require task force publication of differences in views
among executive officers and transmittal of recommendations to
congressional committees. The executive branch shall construe section
3520 in a manner consistent with the President's constitutional
authority to supervise the unitary executive branch, to protect the
confidentiality of executive deliberations, and to recommend to the
consideration of the Congress such measures as he shall judge necessary
and expedient.
GEORGE W. BUSH
THE WHITE HOUSE,
June 28, 2002.
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