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Susan Collins: “If you take $787 billion, even if it is a 1 percent loss, you are talking about a huge amount of money”

On the recordMarch 4, 2009
If you take $787 billion, even if it is a 1 percent loss, you are talking about a huge amount of money
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Susan Collins
Republican · Maine

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Highlighting the significant financial impact of potential waste in stimulus funds.

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