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Chris Van Hollen: “The Pentagon's inability to manage its finances affects its ability to control costs, ensure basic accountability…”

On the recordJune 20, 2017
The Pentagon's inability to manage its finances affects its ability to control costs, ensure basic accountability, anticipate future costs, measure performance, prevent and detect fraud, waste, and abuse, and address pressing management issues and prepare auditable financial statements.
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Chris Van Hollen
Democratic · Maryland

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Van Hollen highlights the Pentagon's financial mismanagement and its implications.

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