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Claire McCaskill: “I want to follow up on--first of all, just given that we can't--we don't have auditable financial statements, how are we…”

On the recordMarch 28, 2011
I want to follow up on--first of all, just given that we can't--we don't have auditable financial statements, how are we going to know that we're actually achieving the savings and efficiencies that--if you don't have the way to measure it by the financial statements that you would in most organizations, how do we know we're even going to achieve the savings? I'm new to this, so--I'm a new Senator, and--so, why don't we?
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Claire McCaskill
Democratic · Missouri

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McCaskill questions the lack of financial statements to measure savings.

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