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On the recordApril 20, 2009
So if you go to someone and ask them if they used a government contract to, instead of do reconnaissance work somewhere, they were doing a charter service of the boat for deep sea fishing and they said no, they would not be in trouble even if they used it for a party cruise where there were no fishing poles?
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Claire McCaskill
Democratic · Missouri

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Questioning the implications of false statements by federal employees.

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