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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
If you are serious about it, you don't keep filling the backlog and congratulating them for getting the new cases.
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Eleanor Holmes Norton
Democratic · District of Columbia

Editor's note · Context

Emphasizing the need to address the backlog rather than just managing new cases.

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