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Eleanor Holmes Norton: You ought to tell OMB that we know how to operate when an agency doesn't do what we urgently believe must be done.

On the recordOctober 26, 2009
You ought to tell OMB that we know how to operate when an agency doesn't do what we urgently believe must be done.
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Eleanor Holmes Norton
Democratic · District of Columbia

Editor's note · Context

Norton asserts Congress's authority to act when agencies fail to respond.

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