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Gerry Connolly: “You have asked a very, very important question, and I would just say, when we wrote FITARA, we decided to make it less…”

On the recordMay 17, 2016
You have asked a very, very important question, and I would just say, when we wrote FITARA, we decided to make it less prescriptive and more expansive.
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Gerry Connolly
Democratic · Virginia

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Connolly reflects on the legislative intent behind FITARA's design.

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