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Tom Carper: “We cut the size of government. I think we ended up in 2000 with fewer Federal employees than we had had in a long time.…”

On the recordJune 17, 2014
We cut the size of government. I think we ended up in 2000 with fewer Federal employees than we had had in a long time. I think that was a goal.
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Tom Carper
Democratic · Delaware

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Carper discusses the reduction of federal workforce as a strategic goal.

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