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Jon Tester: “So the question is: Who can hold their feet to the fire? Or am I shouting into the wind, blowing in the wrong direction?”

On the recordSeptember 23, 2009
So the question is: Who can hold their feet to the fire? Or am I shouting into the wind, blowing in the wrong direction?
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Jon Tester
Democratic · Montana

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Tester questions accountability for GM's actions with public funds.

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