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Roy Blunt: “I've always said that government is the last place where you measure how much you care about something by how much money…”

On the recordMarch 1, 2011
I've always said that government is the last place where you measure how much you care about something by how much money you spend on it instead of the results you see.
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Roy Blunt
Republican · Missouri

Editor's note · Context

Blunt emphasizes the importance of results over spending in government aid programs.

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