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Claire McCaskill: “The idea that we are worried about Yellow Book standards today, give me a break. We have almost $1 billion--no metrics…”

On the recordJanuary 19, 2016
The idea that we are worried about Yellow Book standards today, give me a break. We have almost $1 billion--no metrics, no cost-benefit analysis, no sustainability analysis, a program that is dumb on its face.
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Claire McCaskill
Democratic · Missouri

Editor's note · Context

Frustration over lack of accountability in spending on Afghanistan projects.

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