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Nanette Barragán: “Mr. Secretary, you used to be a Member of Congress yourself. When you wrote a letter to a cabinet secretary, did you not…”

On the recordMarch 14, 2018
Mr. Secretary, you used to be a Member of Congress yourself. When you wrote a letter to a cabinet secretary, did you not expect the cabinet secretary to respond to your letter?
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Nanette Barragán
Democratic · California

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Questions Zinke about his expectation for responses to congressional letters.

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