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Tom Coburn: “Our tendency to put a parochial benefit into the things we do in Congress has driven us to lead to all the duplication.”

On the recordApril 9, 2013
Our tendency to put a parochial benefit into the things we do in Congress has driven us to lead to all the duplication.
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Tom Coburn
Republican · Oklahoma

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Coburn discusses how local interests contribute to government program duplication.

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