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On the recordJuly 9, 2012
I think this could have been handled with a few phone calls rather than a hearing, but that is not my call to make.
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Elijah Cummings
Democratic · Maryland

Editor's note · Context

Cummings suggests that the hearing was unnecessary and could have been resolved informally.

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