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Eleanor Holmes Norton: There has to be something in this to make people understand it.

On the recordMarch 9, 2009
There has to be something in this to make people understand it.
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Eleanor Holmes Norton
Democratic · District of Columbia

Editor's note · Context

Norton expresses frustration over the complexity of understanding infrastructure funding and its impacts.

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