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On the recordFebruary 23, 2010
I will tell you they are astounding and unsettling because they say that the Department of Homeland Security now has just about as many contract employees as it has Federal employees--about 200,000.
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Joe Lieberman
Independent · Connecticut

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Lieberman expresses concern over the high number of contract employees in DHS.

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