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On the recordApril 18, 2018
Mr. President, I reserve the right to object. Mr. President, how does it make sense to confirm an inspector general for an agency that really isn't an agency that is actually in operation doing its best? So we are not going to appoint the members of the Board. We will have zero Board members. They will not be able to conduct the quality and the quantity of business that they used to, and that they could if we had no objection to the motion earlier, and then we are going to have an inspector general to watch over them? That simply doesn't make sense. I object. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Objection is heard. The Senator from North Dakota.
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Sherrod Brown
Democratic · Ohio

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