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Eleanor Holmes Norton: If you are telling me that that money comes back to the government because of free rent, that would be a target.

On the recordJuly 14, 2009
If you are telling me that that money comes back to the government because of free rent, that would be a target.
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Eleanor Holmes Norton
Democratic · District of Columbia

Editor's note · Context

Norton questions the government's failure to maximize benefits from free rent agreements.

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