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Olympia Snowe: “Couldn't we go beyond a freeze and make some reductions, because it really does open the question as to why this office…”

On the recordApril 12, 2011
Couldn't we go beyond a freeze and make some reductions, because it really does open the question as to why this office should have 149 personnel dedicated to criminal enforcement actions when most of the activity is 98 percent non-criminal.
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Olympia Snowe
Republican · Maine

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Senator Snowe questions the number of personnel in criminal enforcement given low criminal activity.

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