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Tom Carper: “And I am not sure that other countries to whom we provide aid or assistance are all that interested in allowing us…”

On the recordJuly 6, 2009
And I am not sure that other countries to whom we provide aid or assistance are all that interested in allowing us, through transparency, to actually know how the money is being spent.
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Tom Carper
Democratic · Delaware

Editor's note · Context

Carper expresses doubt about transparency in foreign aid spending.

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