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On the recordJuly 22, 2013
If you made a request of Congress for information, and you got back a document like this with everything redacted, would that satisfy you?
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Rob Wittman
Republican · Virginia

Editor's note · Context

Wittman emphasizes the absurdity of receiving fully redacted documents in response to information requests.

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