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Tom Carper: “I think we have about 2,000 of them in the Federal Government, and the effort is to try to reduce that to about 800 and…”

On the recordMay 24, 2011
I think we have about 2,000 of them in the Federal Government, and the effort is to try to reduce that to about 800 and to save I think he said $3 billion. I think it is $3 billion over 5 years, which that is real money.
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Tom Carper
Democratic · Delaware

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Carper discusses the goal of reducing federal data centers to save significant funds.

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