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John McCain: “How do I, Mr. Fanning, go tell the taxpayers of America in my State that the Air Force just wasted $1 billion on a…”

On the recordJanuary 30, 2013
How do I, Mr. Fanning, go tell the taxpayers of America in my State that the Air Force just wasted $1 billion on a program that obviously was a miserable failure?
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John McCain
Republican · Arizona

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McCain expresses frustration over wasted taxpayer money on a failed Air Force program.

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