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Eliot Engel: “Obviously, nobody wants fraud. We need to root it out. But we don't want to use it as a reason to kill the program.”

On the recordOctober 22, 2015
Obviously, nobody wants fraud. We need to root it out. But we don't want to use it as a reason to kill the program.
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Eliot Engel
Democratic · New York

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Engel emphasizes the importance of the program despite concerns about fraud.

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