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Mike Coffman: “Due to inadequate oversight of the Purchase Card Program, especially at the Veterans Health Administration, we have…”

On the recordMay 13, 2015
Due to inadequate oversight of the Purchase Card Program, especially at the Veterans Health Administration, we have learned that VA may have committed as much as $5 billion a year in improper and unauthorized procurement expenditures for at least the last five years.
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Mike Coffman
Republican · Colorado

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Coffman highlights the financial mismanagement within the VA's Purchase Card Program.

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