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Eleanor Holmes Norton: “Report is one thing, permission is another. If we get into permission matters, the supersized disaster we are talking…”

On the recordJuly 26, 2009
Report is one thing, permission is another. If we get into permission matters, the supersized disaster we are talking about will be supersized repeated.
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Eleanor Holmes Norton
Democratic · District of Columbia

Editor's note · Context

Norton emphasizes the importance of timely action over bureaucratic permission in disaster response.

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