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Eleanor Holmes Norton: “We don't want to do a lot of leasing, or any more leasing than we have to.”

On the recordJune 10, 2019
We don't want to do a lot of leasing, or any more leasing than we have to.
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Eleanor Holmes Norton
Democratic · District of Columbia

Editor's note · Context

Norton expresses a preference against excessive leasing of federal buildings.

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