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Eleanor Holmes Norton: “I would like to put on the record, if you would allow us, some sense of what employees... would be the sources of…”

On the recordMay 5, 2019
I would like to put on the record, if you would allow us, some sense of what employees... would be the sources of income...
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Eleanor Holmes Norton
Democratic · District of Columbia

Editor's note · Context

Norton emphasizes the importance of understanding employee income sources during a government shutdown.

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