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Barbara Boxer: This chart shows the congressional notification of this contract. The light of day never came to this until way after it…

On the recordMay 22, 2003
This chart shows the congressional notification of this contract. The light of day never came to this until way after it was issued. Now we finally got it after the fifth task order. Estimated value, $7 billion. They called it a bridge contract, by the way, when they started out, and they started to let out these task orders.
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Barbara Boxer
Democratic · California

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Discussing the lack of transparency in a $7 billion contract during a congressional debate.

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