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Brown joins call for NOAA chief's dismissal

U.S. Sen. Scott Brown today will call on President Barack Obama to fire embattled NOAA head Jane Lubchenco, sources close to the senator said Friday.

The senator's office announced in a news release Friday evening that Brown will be in Gloucester this morning for a press conference with fishermen and others employed in the fishing industry.

The senator will make a "major announcement regarding NOAA" at 10 a.m., according to his staff.

Brown's announcement, to be delivered beside "The Man at the Wheel," the iconic Fisherman's Memorial overlooking the harbor, comes as members of Congress have grown increasingly critical of Lubchenco's management and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's treatment of fishermen in the Northeast.

When Lubchenco testified at a U.S. Senate hearing at the Statehouse in Boston on Oct. 3, Brown, R-Mass., complained the Obama appointee "can't even answer a simple question." Afterward he said she had displayed contempt for the members of Congress overseeing her agency.

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