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On the recordJuly 20, 2011
Some people here in Washington don't seem to be able to distinguish between those two kinds of spending.
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Tom Carper
Democratic · Delaware

Editor's note · Context

Critiquing the inability to differentiate between necessary infrastructure spending and wasteful spending.

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