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Deborah Koff Ross: So you are saying, if the gentleman will continue to yield, that the Federal Government cannot account for $24.5 billion…

On the recordMay 25, 2005
So you are saying, if the gentleman will continue to yield, that the Federal Government cannot account for $24.5 billion that it spent in 2003; and what this plan would do is it would say to those agencies that we are going to freeze your budget until you learn how to be fiscally responsible?
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Deborah Koff Ross
Democratic · North Carolina

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