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Dick Durbin: “Can you tell us, when we are so short on money and we do appropriate the money and nothing happens for 4 or 5 years, you…”

On the recordJune 1, 2009
Can you tell us, when we are so short on money and we do appropriate the money and nothing happens for 4 or 5 years, you can understand why that gives us a fair degree of angst.
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois

Editor's note · Context

Durbin expresses frustration over delays in courthouse construction despite allocated funds.

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