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Jon S. Corzine: “As you can well imagine as a former business person, though, that if you had bonded, if you had gone to the banks under…”

On the recordFebruary 13, 2002
As you can well imagine as a former business person, though, that if you had bonded, if you had gone to the banks under the projections that you were going to receive grants and it had been indicated that those were going to occur, then for them not to, you leave individual communities that maybe have used those effectively high and dry.
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Jon S. Corzine
Democratic · New Jersey
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congress.gov
Feb 13, 2002

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Senator Corzine discusses the impact of unfulfilled grant expectations on communities.

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