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Mary Landrieu: “Perhaps it is time to shut down $17 billion worth of money going for reconstruction projects when our track record…”

On the recordJune 29, 2011
Perhaps it is time to shut down $17 billion worth of money going for reconstruction projects when our track record really stinks when it comes to reconstruction projects.
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Mary Landrieu
Democratic · Louisiana

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Landrieu questions the effectiveness of reconstruction spending in Afghanistan.

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