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Mike Pompeo: “I just say to the chairman, I'm not urging anyone to rush out and spend this money. I'm urging this money to stay in the…”

On the recordJuly 18, 2012
I just say to the chairman, I'm not urging anyone to rush out and spend this money. I'm urging this money to stay in the pockets of the taxpayers because the Department of Defense has not asked for it. All of the things that have been spoken to, these good ideas, I was a small business owner. I made airplane parts for 10 years. I don't want anybody to rush out and spend the money. I want to leave it in the taxpayers' pockets, where the Department of Defense believes it should be.
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Mike Pompeo
Republican · Kansas
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govinfo.gov
Jul 18, 2012

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