06/19/2012
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"Just as an example, one of those tradeoffs is that the World Food Program in and around Syria is cutting off aid to refugee families that do not live in the actual refugee camps."
"This sort of has been a cause and crusade of mine for years, to put some teeth back into our Buy America requirements."
"the damage to the overall Federal Treasury, in the lost jobs, the lost tax revenue, the increased Medicaid costs, the increased unemployment costs, pretty quickly wipes out the savings to the agency."
"So I understand the difficult tradeoffs you have to make, but we should all be cognizant of the consequences to U.S. national security."