03/02/2020
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"It seems like you are sort of turning your head or refusing to look at existing plans that you mentioned."
"I would think that to move the agency under the Chief Economist would make it have less integrity and less independence."
"Thank you very much, Dr. Evans."
"ERS, as I understand it, removing it from Research, Education, and Economics and putting it under the Chief Economist would appear to reduce assurances of the scientific integrity and the objectivity ..."