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On the recordMay 11, 2010
Well, if you award this to Airbus, after this step--extraordinary step of extending the time period--and it's a $35 billion contract, and it's a subsidized platform, which we all know is a subsidized platform--I think you're going to have some very irritated people in the United States of America.
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Sam Brownback
Republican · Kansas

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Brownback warns against awarding a major contract to Airbus due to subsidy concerns.

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