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Eleanor Holmes Norton: “What is the rationale, given how research-based most of your policies are? What is the rationale?”

On the recordDecember 12, 2017
What is the rationale, given how research-based most of your policies are? What is the rationale?
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Eleanor Holmes Norton
Democratic · District of Columbia

Editor's note · Context

Norton questions the reasoning behind the 25% charge on inmates' earnings.

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