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Claire McCaskill: “This just would not happen in the private sector; it would not happen.”

On the recordJuly 22, 2015
This just would not happen in the private sector; it would not happen.
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Claire McCaskill
Democratic · Missouri

Editor's note · Context

Senator McCaskill compares inefficiencies in government projects to the private sector.

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