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On the recordMarch 15, 2011
You know, it looks like a big reach--a reach for added jurisdiction and a blank check, really. Well, a $6.6 million check----
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Thad Cochran
Republican · Mississippi

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Cochran critiques the funding proposal as potentially excessive and jurisdictionally overreaching.

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