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Haley Stevens: “The problem is people ought to know what they are talking about before they change the system. In these budgets are both…”

On the recordSeptember 30, 2004
The problem is people ought to know what they are talking about before they change the system. In these budgets are both moneys for acquisition and for salaries, and somewhere in there is some money that everybody knows, in the intelligence community, where it is and what it is for. In the Defense authorization bill there is a classified portion of that budget.
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Haley Stevens
Democratic · Michigan

Editor's note · Context

Discussing the importance of understanding budget details before making changes to the system.

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