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On the recordSeptember 7, 2016
The NSC staff itself should not be carrying out the policy. That responsibility rests with the cabinet agencies.
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Eliot Engel
Democratic · New York

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Engel asserts that policy execution should be managed by cabinet agencies, not the NSC staff.

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