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On the recordApril 24, 2012
When individual senators can hold up qualified nonpolitical nominees like yourself due to one agenda or another, it just shows that the system is broken and the time to fix it is now.
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Eliot Engel
Democratic · New York

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Engel criticizes the Senate's nomination process for delaying qualified nominees.

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