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Gary Peters: “If such spending is indeed wasteful, what can be done to reduce it?”

On the recordSeptember 19, 2017
If such spending is indeed wasteful, what can be done to reduce it?
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Gary Peters
Democratic · Michigan

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Senator Peters questions how to address wasteful spending.

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