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On the recordOctober 4, 2017
I hope that we can get assurances from you that in your administration of highway grants, you will protect the integrity of the process and not allow political calls to be made and political threats to be made to influence that process.
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Sheldon Whitehouse
Democratic · Rhode Island

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Whitehouse seeks assurance on maintaining process integrity in highway grants.

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