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Karen Bass: I would not disagree it is the most competitive corporate welfare program around, but does the gentlewoman from Michigan…

On the recordAugust 4, 1998
I would not disagree it is the most competitive corporate welfare program around, but does the gentlewoman from Michigan (Ms. Rivers) believe that ATP funds should not be awarded to companies that say that they would have developed the product anyway, as 42 percent of them did say?
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Karen Bass
Democratic · California

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Questioning the allocation of ATP funds during a discussion on corporate welfare.

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