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Eleanor Holmes Norton: It had everything to do with the fact that the city then was paying not only for $5 billion in pension liability...

On the recordJanuary 29, 2014
It had everything to do with the fact that the city then was paying not only for $5 billion in pension liability...
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Eleanor Holmes Norton
Democratic · District of Columbia

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Norton discusses the financial burdens that affected the city's management.

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