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On the recordFebruary 10, 2015
If you do not have the head of the agency or the deputy focused on this issue, you will make marginal progress, at best, in those areas.
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Tom Carper
Democratic · Delaware

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Emphasizing the importance of leadership commitment for agency progress.

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