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Elijah Cummings: “Do you think it would be prudent to give the Department an opportunity to warn us?”

On the recordJune 12, 2011
Do you think it would be prudent to give the Department an opportunity to warn us?
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Elijah Cummings
Democratic · Maryland

Editor's note · Context

Cummings questions the need for the Department to alert the committee about potential dangers.

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