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Eleanor Holmes Norton: “It broke my heart that, in order to get even a small bump... we had to reduce the bill from a 6-year bill to a 5-year…”

On the recordJanuary 31, 2017
It broke my heart that, in order to get even a small bump... we had to reduce the bill from a 6-year bill to a 5-year bill.
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Eleanor Holmes Norton
Democratic · District of Columbia

Editor's note · Context

Norton expresses disappointment over the reduction of the infrastructure bill's duration.

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