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Pete Hoekstra: “This is I think maybe perhaps one of the sadder moments when we were sitting down with the leadership of the Department…”

On the recordNovember 1, 1999
This is I think maybe perhaps one of the sadder moments when we were sitting down with the leadership of the Department of Education and we asked about duplicate payments and they said, we are aware of one. And we kind of pushed them on it and they said, well, there might have been a couple. And then we hauled out again from I think their chief function officer document that we said the head of the bullet points were examples of duplicate payments, 40 million, 4 million, 296. I know that went to the State of Colorado or the University of Colorado.
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Pete Hoekstra
Michigan

Editor's note · Context

Discussing issues of duplicate payments within the Department of Education.

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