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Claire McCaskill: “I think we have learned one thing over the last 6 or 7 years of contracting oversight, and that is the way you really…”

On the recordFebruary 3, 2014
I think we have learned one thing over the last 6 or 7 years of contracting oversight, and that is the way you really begin to change a culture that would allow this to happen is to have everyone see that senior leaders are held as accountable as a young member of the Guard who figured out he or she could scam the system and game this to make thousands of dollars he or she was not entitled to.
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Claire McCaskill
Democratic · Missouri

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Emphasizes the need for accountability among senior leaders in contracting oversight.

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