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On the recordOctober 28, 2009
Agencies are making the decision right now to spend another $1.3 billion to produce the paperwork we see here. Is there anything we can do about that?
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Tom Carper
Democratic · Delaware

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Carper questions the high spending on paperwork by agencies.

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