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On the recordSeptember 13, 2005
What we're doing is we're putting a CFO, a comptroller in the White House that is overseeing how this money gets spent.
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Barack Obama
Democratic · Illinois

Editor's note · Context

Senator Obama explains the establishment of a CFO to ensure proper spending of reconstruction funds.

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