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On the recordMarch 8, 2011
While I do not agree myself with Congress appropriating $120 million for an insolvent program, it makes even less sense to me to spend $93.5 million of that funding to promote a program that we know is structured currently to fail.
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Richard Shelby
Republican · Alabama

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Shelby criticizes spending on a failing program.

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