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Elijah Cummings: “I would take it that a wooden structure would be a clear signal that you had to do something?”

On the recordJanuary 23, 2012
I would take it that a wooden structure would be a clear signal that you had to do something?
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Elijah Cummings
Democratic · Maryland

Editor's note · Context

Cummings questions the significance of building a wooden structure as a trigger for action.

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