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Eleanor Holmes Norton: “I would simply like to go on record before asking my questions to thank you, Madam Chair, for joining me in sending a…”

On the recordJune 10, 2019
I would simply like to go on record before asking my questions to thank you, Madam Chair, for joining me in sending a letter last month to the Financial Services Appropriations Subcommittee to request that they restrict GSA's ability to use funds to assist in the implementation of USDA's plan to relocate two agencies, the Economic Research Service and the National Institute of Food and Agriculture, out of the Washington, DC, area.
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Eleanor Holmes Norton
Democratic · District of Columbia

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Norton thanks the chair for support against USDA's relocation plan.

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