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On the recordSeptember 9, 2013
I am absolutely outraged that the chairmen of the full committee and Subcommittees on Health and Oversight as well as other Republican members of this committee sent a 3-page investigatory letter to 51 grant recipients demanding that they answer questions giving them only 2 weeks to provide detailed descriptions of the anticipated scope of wrong, among other very specific questions, to provide all documentation and communications related to their grant.
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G. K. Butterfield
Democratic · North Carolina
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Butterfield criticizes the committee's investigatory letter to grant recipients as unreasonable and a misuse of authority.

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