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Louise Slaughter: “I simply want to say that I did hear my colleague say how concerned we all were about corruption and how much we really…”

On the recordOctober 16, 2007
I simply want to say that I did hear my colleague say how concerned we all were about corruption and how much we really wanted to do about it. Unfortunately, for the past 3 years nothing on your side was done about it. It was never looked into, despite the fact that our side brought it up numerous times, trying to get bills to the floor and trying to discuss what was going on in Iraq in terms of the loss of taxpayer money. I regret that that has not been acknowledged. This is the first time that we have literally brought up the actual corruption in the Iraq Government.
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Louise Slaughter
New York

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Addressing concerns about corruption related to the Iraq Government during a House floor debate.

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