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Eleanor Holmes Norton: “I don't accept that the present budget process is at all responsive to this new world of climate change.”

On the recordFebruary 13, 2013
I don't accept that the present budget process is at all responsive to this new world of climate change.
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Eleanor Holmes Norton
Democratic · District of Columbia

Editor's note · Context

Norton criticizes the current budget process for not addressing climate change adequately.

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