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On the recordApril 22, 2009
But you are going to have to get your arms around those costs there because ultimately, as Senator Mikulski has pointed out, you come back up here to the committee and we have trouble finding money if the costs keep going up and up in not just your agency, but the FBI, everywhere else because we will be allocated a finite amount of money to deal with this.
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Richard Shelby
Republican · Alabama

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Senator Shelby emphasizes the need to control costs to secure funding.

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