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Jon Tester: “Why not? It just seems to me--and just tell me Mr. Williams or Mr. Mayes, if you can tell me what you do now.”

On the recordSeptember 29, 2009
Why not? It just seems to me--and just tell me Mr. Williams or Mr. Mayes, if you can tell me what you do now.
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Jon Tester
Democratic · Montana

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Tester questions the rationale behind not measuring appeal rates for contractor exams.

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