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James M. Talent: It just doesn't work if you have taken a subject that ought to be confined to one or two committees and you split it up…

On the recordJune 22, 2011
It just doesn't work if you have taken a subject that ought to be confined to one or two committees and you split it up among dozens and dozens of committees and subcommittees.
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James M. Talent
Missouri

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Talent critiques the fragmentation of oversight across too many committees.

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