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Angus King: “In my view, the major impediment is the structure which is so cumbersome and confusing and overlapping and dispersed…”

On the recordMarch 1, 2017
In my view, the major impediment is the structure which is so cumbersome and confusing and overlapping and dispersed that that produces cumbersome, overlapping, and dispersed policy.
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Angus King
Independent · Maine

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Critiques the complicated structure hindering effective policy development.

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