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Steve Scalise: “It is a free phone to some people that is paid for by other people, and those other people that are paying for that…”

On the recordApril 24, 2013
It is a free phone to some people that is paid for by other people, and those other people that are paying for that service, when they see the fraud and abuse and the waste in this program, get incredibly angry.
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Steve Scalise
Republican · Louisiana
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Editor's note · Context

Scalise criticizes the misuse of taxpayer money in a free phone program.

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