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Kendrick Meek: “Overseeing the Federal Government, but see, the issue that is so difficult here is the fact that this is our main job…”

On the recordOctober 17, 2005
Overseeing the Federal Government, but see, the issue that is so difficult here is the fact that this is our main job, and we are not doing it. It takes a while to get a culture. If it is corruption, it comes and it goes. When you have a culture of corruption and cronyism, that means two things. Someone has not been overseeing the rules. Someone has not been saying listen, no, I am sorry. We have the Department of Transportation. This is what you are supposed to be doing because we are the oversight committee of the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, and we have oversight over you and we are elected by the American people to make sure that your tax dollar is being spent in the appropriate way.
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Kendrick Meek
Florida
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