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On the recordJune 12, 2012
For many of us, this outsourcing just became a passion, and people stopped asking the most basic question: Is this serving the Nation well?
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois

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Durbin critiques the reliance on private contractors in defense spending.

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