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Richard Shelby: “Failure can't be an option here. It wouldn't be in the private sector. The business would be gone, would it not?”

On the recordFebruary 25, 2015
Failure can't be an option here. It wouldn't be in the private sector. The business would be gone, would it not?
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Richard Shelby
Republican · Alabama

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Emphasizing the importance of avoiding failure in managing systems.

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