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Mike Quigley: Yet we waste billions of dollars each year maintaining properties we no longer need.

On the recordJuly 26, 2011
Yet we waste billions of dollars each year maintaining properties we no longer need.
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Mike Quigley
Democratic · Illinois

Editor's note · Context

Quigley criticizes the financial waste in maintaining excess federal properties.

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