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On the recordFebruary 14, 2017
I appreciate the need to title these hearings with cool names like 'Making the EPA Great Again' and 'Risky Business,' but I fear that we're going to go down the road of Top Gun and Mission Impossible and Jerry Maguire, so I'd like to move that we don't name any more after Tom Cruise movies.
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Don Beyer
Democratic · Virginia

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Beyer critiques naming hearings after movies, suggesting it detracts from their seriousness.

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