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On the recordMay 7, 2013
We have done nothing about paying dead people. We documented $1 billion that was spent over the previous 10 years that we could actually document paid to dead people.
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Thomas Coburn
Republican · Oklahoma

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Coburn criticizes the lack of progress in addressing payments made to deceased individuals.

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