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On the recordMarch 13, 2012
Sometimes when we ask these questions, they go--not just to you, but to everybody else--they go into some kind of a dark hole and with a feeling that perhaps there is a limited attention span on the part of some of us in the Congress. On this matter, I have a long attention span.
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Patrick Leahy
Democratic · Vermont

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Leahy expresses frustration about the lack of responses to congressional inquiries.

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