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Eleanor Holmes Norton: “The rationale given by my colleagues had been contrived and incongruent with what the record reviews”

On the recordJanuary 8, 2020
The rationale given by my colleagues had been contrived and incongruent with what the record reviews
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Eleanor Holmes Norton
Democratic · District of Columbia

Editor's note · Context

Norton critiques her colleagues' arguments regarding the census as unfounded.

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