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Jerry Lewis: “But the point I am making is what message are we sending to defense contractors who have committed fraud, and the list…”

On the recordJune 7, 2000
But the point I am making is what message are we sending to defense contractors who have committed fraud, and the list is long and it is ongoing, according to the Government Accounting Office, if we say to them we are not going to crack down on you; keep committing fraud, fraud that endangers the lives of young men and women in the military with substandard equipment, fraud that drains precious tax dollars from the training the gentleman from California so eloquently talked about earlier, fraud that takes resources away from the American people, their tax dollars, and diverts it into the coffers that have not been earned by defense contractors? What message are we sending if we cannot crack down on fraud? I cannot believe that Members would vote against such an amendment.
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Jerry Lewis
California
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Addressing the need to crack down on fraud by defense contractors during a committee discussion.

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