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On the recordMarch 20, 2012
If it can't operate, why fund it? If it doesn't operate well, why fund it when, as I understand it, there are other methods of handling the problem?
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Dianne Feinstein
Democratic · California

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Feinstein questions the rationale for funding a non-operational project.

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