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On the recordApril 11, 2011
I believe I mentioned, a lot of people think we operate under a culture of spendthrift, and what we are trying to do is to move away from that toward a culture of thrift.
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Thomas Carper
Democratic · Delaware

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Carper emphasizes the need to shift government culture from wastefulness to thriftiness.

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