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On the recordApril 23, 1997
reclaiming my time, what we finally should do is to give credit to the literary hand that runs us all. Clearly this was motivated by the purloined letter, where the way to hide it was to leave it out in public, because, apparently, the Commerce Department stands accused of having signed a secret agreement to govern us all and then nefariously publishing that secret agreement to cover their tracks.
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Barney Frank
Democratic · Massachusetts

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Addressing concerns about a secret agreement involving the Commerce Department.

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