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Richard Blumenthal: “The pending appropriations bill, the omnibus bill, contains some provisions which I have added that will finally make…”

On the recordJanuary 13, 2014
The pending appropriations bill, the omnibus bill, contains some provisions which I have added that will finally make public, as much as can be made public, a lot of specific data about what has been collected, why it has been collected, and what the result of the collections has been.
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Richard Blumenthal
Democratic · Connecticut

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Durbin discusses transparency in data collection through the appropriations bill.

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