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Maxine Waters: “With all due respect for your concern about whether or not our witnesses are in compliance with the rules, I would…”

On the recordDecember 11, 2012
With all due respect for your concern about whether or not our witnesses are in compliance with the rules, I would respectfully ask the Chair to have a private conversation with them about their workloads and what they are attempting to do.
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Maxine Waters
Democratic · California

Editor's note · Context

Waters suggests a private discussion about compliance issues instead of public confrontation.

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