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Jon Tester: “It costs $3,000 to send one employee to a conference where there are 150 farmers sitting there.”

On the recordJanuary 13, 2014
It costs $3,000 to send one employee to a conference where there are 150 farmers sitting there.
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Jon Tester
Democratic · Montana

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Tester critiques the high cost of sending employees to conferences.

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