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On the recordNovember 7, 2017
the idea of taxpayer money going to private companies to dig for information this Committee should be able to get from Federal agencies already strikes me as wasteful and duplicative.
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Tom Udall
Democratic · New Mexico

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Udall criticizes spending taxpayer money on unnecessary private contracts.

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