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On the recordJuly 26, 2009
Let me indicate that the Appropriations Committee supports our view, it would support it many times over now, that we don't have money to spend on another top layer beside the top layer that is already there.
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Eleanor Holmes Norton
Democratic · District of Columbia

Editor's note · Context

Norton emphasizes the need to avoid unnecessary layers in disaster management funding.

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