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Tom Carper: “If we are looking for a needle in a haystack, sometimes it is helpful if we actually reduce the size of the haystack.”

On the recordFebruary 3, 2015
If we are looking for a needle in a haystack, sometimes it is helpful if we actually reduce the size of the haystack.
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Tom Carper
Democratic · Delaware

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Emphasizes the need to reduce complexity in finding solutions.

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