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Duncan Hunter: “If you are not doing it for any particular purpose that meets a standing threat, then why put the money there at all?”

On the recordMarch 1, 2011
If you are not doing it for any particular purpose that meets a standing threat, then why put the money there at all?
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Duncan Hunter
Republican · California

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Questioning the funding for a program without a clear threat.

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