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Tom Coburn: “I thought that was a pretty good idea, and the homeless groups said, in part, in response, 'Well, if you do that, what…”

On the recordJune 15, 2015
I thought that was a pretty good idea, and the homeless groups said, in part, in response, 'Well, if you do that, what the appropriators will do is they will'--let us say we had, like $5 as an example, $5 from all the proceeds of all these sales that could go to homeless groups.
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Tom Coburn
Republican · Oklahoma

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Coburn discusses a proposal to sell surplus property to aid homeless groups.

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