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John B. Breaux: if we are going to look in the MARAD program for huge amounts of waste, fraud, and abuse compared to everything else, I…

On the recordJune 5, 2003
if we are going to look in the MARAD program for huge amounts of waste, fraud, and abuse compared to everything else, I would suggest that we're going to be spending a lot of time, with little results.
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John B. Breaux
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congress.gov
Jun 5, 2003

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Breaux suggests that investigating MARAD for waste may yield little results.

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