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Claire McCaskill: $16 million here, $100 million here, $300 million there, pretty soon you've got billions and billions of dollars that we…

On the recordJanuary 5, 2009
$16 million here, $100 million here, $300 million there, pretty soon you've got billions and billions of dollars that we could be saving.
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Claire McCaskill
Democratic · Missouri

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McCaskill highlights the cumulative effect of small amounts of waste in government spending.

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