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Mazie Hirono: “I think it makes a lot of sense, with a 150,000-case backlog, to basically triage the kind of cases that you have and…”

On the recordJuly 18, 2017
I think it makes a lot of sense, with a 150,000-case backlog, to basically triage the kind of cases that you have and move things along.
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Mazie Hirono
Democratic · Hawaii

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Hirono emphasizes the need to prioritize cases to manage the backlog effectively.

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