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On the recordFebruary 13, 2012
I think there's been an awful lot of talk around the Senate about freezing Federal employees' salaries and cutting the number of Federal employees, but there's been very little real difficult work of trying to hold down the cost of personal services contracts.
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Claire McCaskill
Democratic · Missouri

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McCaskill criticizes the focus on cutting federal employees instead of addressing contractor costs.

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