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On the recordJune 11, 2013
what this says to the bad actors is that we could continue to do the stuff that we do and keep coming right back to the government and saying, keep me in business, not for a year or two, but for generations.
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Elijah Cummings
Democratic · Maryland

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Cummings expresses frustration over bad actors exploiting government systems repeatedly.

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