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Eleanor Holmes Norton: “It seems to me, if one were trying to help this administration get out of the quagmire into which it fell by…”

On the recordDecember 1, 2009
It seems to me, if one were trying to help this administration get out of the quagmire into which it fell by inheritance, one of the things would be to ask: Should we continue to pay for buildings multiple times?
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Eleanor Holmes Norton
Democratic · District of Columbia

Editor's note · Context

Norton questions the repeated payments for leased buildings.

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