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Claire McCaskill: So we are paying USIS several hundred million dollars a year to do background checks, and we are paying them $45 million…

On the recordJune 19, 2013
So we are paying USIS several hundred million dollars a year to do background checks, and we are paying them $45 million a year to do the office work.
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Claire McCaskill
Democratic · Missouri

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McCaskill criticizes the financial arrangements with USIS for background checks and office work.

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