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Dan Coats: “I could point out waste of the day, waste of the hour, or waste of the minute, thanks to GAO and other investigative…”

On the recordJuly 15, 2015
I could point out waste of the day, waste of the hour, or waste of the minute, thanks to GAO and other investigative agencies that have pointed out that we have a dysfunctional government and we are wasting taxpayer dollars faster than we can send them to Washington.
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Dan Coats
Republican · Indiana

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Senator Coats criticizes government inefficiency and waste of taxpayer money.

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