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Claire McCaskill: How weird is it that they could be sitting side by side with a Federal employee doing the exact same work, seeing the…

On the recordJune 10, 2009
How weird is it that they could be sitting side by side with a Federal employee doing the exact same work, seeing the exact same problem, and one would be entitled to a jury trial because they worked for a private contractor and the other one would not because they worked for the Federal Government?
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Claire McCaskill
Democratic · Missouri

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McCaskill questions the inconsistency in jury trial rights between contractors and federal employees.

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