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On the recordFebruary 8, 2012
the cost estimates for the Future Combat System, according to GAO, grew to $300 billion of the taxpayers' money, a scandal of proportions that if most taxpayers knew about it, they would share the outrage that a lot of us feel.
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Carl Levin
Democratic · Michigan

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Levin criticizes the rising costs of military programs and taxpayer outrage.

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