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Don Nickles: “PricewaterhouseCoopers is a $220 million contractor. That is pretty significant. Let me ask you a question.…”

On the recordJuly 31, 2002
PricewaterhouseCoopers is a $220 million contractor. That is pretty significant. Let me ask you a question. PricewaterhouseCoopers does a lot of business, evidently, with the Department of Defense, homeland security, and other Federal contractors. They would be banned from all Federal contracts--or only Federal contracts dealing with Department of Defense?
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Don Nickles
Oklahoma

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Questioning the implications of a provision related to federal contracting during a discussion.

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