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Jon Tester: “How are you going to know if the States are doing their job?”

On the recordMarch 4, 2009
How are you going to know if the States are doing their job?
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Jon Tester
Democratic · Montana

Editor's note · Context

Tester questions oversight of states in managing stimulus funds.

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