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Eleanor Holmes Norton: You don't have a right under the Stafford Act to be where you were before, to be close to work.

On the recordJuly 26, 2009
You don't have a right under the Stafford Act to be where you were before, to be close to work.
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Eleanor Holmes Norton
Democratic · District of Columbia

Editor's note · Context

Norton explains limitations of the Stafford Act regarding federal funding for disaster recovery.

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