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Sanford Bishop: “I would think that to move the agency under the Chief Economist would make it have less integrity and less independence.”

On the recordFebruary 26, 2019
I would think that to move the agency under the Chief Economist would make it have less integrity and less independence.
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Sanford Bishop
Democratic · Georgia

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Bishop questioned the integrity of moving the agency under the Chief Economist.

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