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On the recordFebruary 4, 2009
I thought in the last administration that we had to introduce the head of the Drug Enforcement Administration to the head of the Department of Health and Human Services and remind them that they worked for the same President and wondered why they weren't going in the same direction.
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Sheldon Whitehouse
Democratic · Rhode Island

Editor's note · Context

Whitehouse criticized coordination issues between federal agencies in the previous administration.

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