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On the recordSeptember 29, 2015
So you have the authority as a political appointee to look at your folks not on a judgment call, but just say, hey, general, I know you know more about science than I do, but you are wrong; I am right.
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Dan Sullivan
Republican · Alaska

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Sullivan questions the authority of political appointees over scientific experts.

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