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On the recordJune 10, 2013
I am glad to hear those are the kind of decisions--we spent $500 million on a cost-plus contract that got us nothing on a handheld device for the Census, and nobody was held accountable for it, nobody got canned.
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Thomas Coburn
Republican · Oklahoma

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Coburn criticizes wasteful spending on a failed Census contract.

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