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On the recordMarch 19, 2009
Yeah, and if you are in the private sector and you do that, you are going to be held to it. Why isn't an agency held to it?
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Eleanor Holmes Norton
Democratic · District of Columbia

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Norton highlights the disparity in accountability between private and public sectors.

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