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Pat McHenry: “I can understand if you didn't know a 3 percent cost overrun, but 25 percent, for heaven's sake, that seems to me…”

On the recordOctober 20, 2009
I can understand if you didn't know a 3 percent cost overrun, but 25 percent, for heaven's sake, that seems to me unfathomable that you didn't know that.
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Pat McHenry
Republican · North Carolina

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McHenry highlights the severity of a 25% cost overrun.

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