If you are serious about it, you don't keep filling the backlog and congratulating them for getting the new cases.
Eleanor Holmes Norton: “If you are serious about it, you don't keep filling the backlog and congratulating them for getting the new cases.”
On the recordMarch 19, 2009
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Emphasizing the need to address the backlog rather than just managing new cases.
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