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On the recordApril 2, 2009
I do want to thank you for that testimony, because it is another one of the absurdities of how easy it is for the bureaucrats to simply answer, when you ask for funding, 'Sorry, we only fund for-profit.'
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Eleanor Holmes Norton
Democratic · District of Columbia

Editor's note · Context

Norton criticizes bureaucratic funding policies favoring for-profit entities over nonprofits.

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