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On the recordApril 27, 2009
I think maybe that sort of--the way that we bring people into leadership positions for a relatively short period of time, a year or two, they are gone, we have vacancies, sometimes for extended periods of time before we fill them again.
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Tom Carper
Democratic · Delaware

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Carper discusses the issue of short tenures in leadership positions affecting oversight.

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