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Susan Collins: “DOD funds provided for specific purposes, but no longer needed or in excess of that requirement, should be returned to…”

On the recordMarch 28, 2011
DOD funds provided for specific purposes, but no longer needed or in excess of that requirement, should be returned to the General Fund of the Treasury.
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Susan Collins
Republican · Maine

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Advocating for returning unneeded DOD funds to the Treasury instead of reallocating them.

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