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Mike Thompson: “Well, that is--I wish I could say that is the $64 million question, but, sadly, it is going to cost taxpayers a lot more…”

On the recordNovember 15, 2017
Well, that is--I wish I could say that is the $64 million question, but, sadly, it is going to cost taxpayers a lot more than $64 million when all is said and done. It is a mystery to me. I asked the chairman, who wrote the bill, during the committee markup, why he would do that, and he had no response. He said: Well, we are going to fix it. We are going to make it better.
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Mike Thompson
Democratic · California
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Nov 15, 2017

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