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Eleanor Holmes Norton: “It is an extreme proposal, to put it mildly. There is a reason that reorganizations are rarely done.”

On the recordSeptember 9, 2019
It is an extreme proposal, to put it mildly. There is a reason that reorganizations are rarely done.
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Eleanor Holmes Norton
Democratic · District of Columbia

Editor's note · Context

Norton criticizes the proposal for reorganizing federal agencies as extreme and impractical.

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