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On the recordMay 9, 2012
Thank you very much. As the President cannot create the councils by executive order, the councils have to be created by Congress. I would hope that the leadership of your committee and jurisdiction would create those councils so that they will have some bottoms-up authorities.
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Sam Farr
Democratic · California

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