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James Lankford: “Why? Because that had to be a metric-driven piece, too, that helps us understand how things were evaluated.”

On the recordJuly 5, 2016
Why? Because that had to be a metric-driven piece, too, that helps us understand how things were evaluated.
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James Lankford
Republican · Oklahoma

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Lankford questions the evaluation process of a discontinued program.

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