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Howard Griffith: “I thought that is what reauthorization was, that if you ran out of authorization, that was a sunset.”

On the recordOctober 4, 2011
I thought that is what reauthorization was, that if you ran out of authorization, that was a sunset.
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Howard Griffith
Republican · Virginia

Editor's note · Context

Griffith discusses the concept of reauthorization and its relation to program sunsets.

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