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On the recordJanuary 13, 2009
The entire agency process had in effect been a sham, that the result was willful ignorance triumphant.
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Sheldon Whitehouse
Democratic · Rhode Island

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Whitehouse describes the flawed agency process due to OMB's influence.

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