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Jeff Flake: Reclaiming my time, I take it I am not going to get an answer to this. All we know is from a press release, and we know…

On the recordMay 24, 2006
Reclaiming my time, I take it I am not going to get an answer to this. All we know is from a press release, and we know that this is simply the latest traunch in other funding that has been provided. What I hear, and I guess the author is not here of the amendment or, I am sorry, the author of the earmark, the sponsor of the earmark, that no oversight has been conducted. Do we feel comfortable going ahead and appropriating more when no oversight has been conducted at all on what has already been expended?
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Jeff Flake
Republican · Arizona

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