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Congressman Bentz cites Kafka on process and law in debate on NEPA reform

Oregon Congressman Cliff Bentz says supporting the SPEED Act, which would amend the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 and quicken the environmental review process that the purpose of process was to create a predictable sequence of steps to achieve an outcome consistent with substantive law, and when process was allowed to intrude the process of a law the law itself was perverted, and as philosopher Franz Kafka described it the process became punishment as you were not guilty or innocent yet but were processed until you ran out of money, time or sanity, and procedure existed to serve substantive rights not supplant them, and as the Supreme Court stated in the Seven County case NEPA was a purely procedural statute not a mandate for a particular result.
Oregon Congressman Cliff Bentz says supporting the SPEED Act, which would amend the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 and quicken the environmental review process that the purpose of process was to create a predictable sequence of steps to achieve an outcome consistent with substantive law, and when process was allowed to intrude the process of a law the law itself was perverted, and as philosopher Franz Kafka described it the process became punishment as you were not guilty or innocent yet but were processed until you ran out of money, time or sanity, and procedure existed to serve substantive rights not supplant them, and as the Supreme Court stated in the Seven County case NEPA was a purely procedural statute not a mandate for a particular result.
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