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Summer Lee: “I don't think we have answered that. That is true, and we need to improve that.”

On the recordMarch 3, 2009
I don't think we have answered that. That is true, and we need to improve that.
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Summer Lee
Democratic · Pennsylvania

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Acknowledging the need for better internal controls in ICE's implementation of programs.

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