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Thomas Rivera Schatz: “One of the main impediments to reducing the mismanagement of the taxpayers' money is Congress' tendency to create a…”

On the recordJanuary 8, 2014
One of the main impediments to reducing the mismanagement of the taxpayers' money is Congress' tendency to create a program to solve a problem rather than spending the time to determine whether or not an existing program can address the same subject matter.
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Thomas Rivera Schatz

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Schatz discusses Congress's tendency to create new programs instead of utilizing existing ones.

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