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Eleanor Holmes Norton: “I don't think that the Secret Service is a bunch of bums. I've got to look at what is happening to these men and women.”

On the recordMarch 23, 2015
I don't think that the Secret Service is a bunch of bums. I've got to look at what is happening to these men and women.
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Eleanor Holmes Norton
Democratic · District of Columbia

Editor's note · Context

Norton defends Secret Service agents while questioning their working conditions.

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