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Eleanor Holmes Norton: “These hearings are so often accusatory that they yield no guidance as to how to conduct business in the future...”

On the recordJuly 6, 2016
These hearings are so often accusatory that they yield no guidance as to how to conduct business in the future...
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Eleanor Holmes Norton
Democratic · District of Columbia

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Norton criticizes the accusatory nature of the hearings.

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