On the recordOctober 10, 2007
I'm so glad that you brought this up, because as a member of the whip team, I was working this debt collection bill that we passed on the House floor today, and I was just equally as shocked as you were about how many of our colleagues on the other side of the aisle voted against this because here are the facts. Those private debt collection companies were costing us $70 million. We paid them $70 million of government funds to collect $20 million.
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