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Sam Farr: “just a moment ago it was said that we were getting too carried away. Let us look at the record of who is getting a…”

On the recordMarch 30, 1998
just a moment ago it was said that we were getting too carried away. Let us look at the record of who is getting a little carried away. According to Congressional Quarterly, the Republican leadership has had the most expensive congressional investigation in the history of the House. Their investigator, they spend over $10,000 a month on his own salary. They sent five investigators to Taiwan to look at bank records. They came back and my colleagues on the other side of the aisle introduced this bill.
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Sam Farr
Democratic · California
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Discussing the costs of congressional investigations during a debate.

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