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Eric Swalwell: “I am glad the scoring has been brought up and maybe this is an opportunity that the Chairman and I and Ranking Member…”

On the recordJune 26, 2013
I am glad the scoring has been brought up and maybe this is an opportunity that the Chairman and I and Ranking Member Maffei can work on to address and try and correct this because it sounds like there is agreement among the three of us that it is just a--kind of a mindless approached to scoring and there are opportunities for further savings that we could look into.
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Eric Swalwell
Democratic · California

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Swalwell discusses the need to address scoring issues for efficiency improvements.

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