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Dave Camp: When carrots work, why is the Committee so readily resorting to the stick?

On the recordMarch 25, 2009
When carrots work, why is the Committee so readily resorting to the stick?
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Dave Camp
Michigan

Editor's note · Context

Camp questions the need for punitive measures when incentives are effective.

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