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Peter DeFazio: “I just figured out if a background check costs $60, fingerprint-based, that would be 170,000 or so background checks.”

On the recordOctober 15, 2019
I just figured out if a background check costs $60, fingerprint-based, that would be 170,000 or so background checks.
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Peter DeFazio
Democratic · Oregon

Editor's note · Context

DeFazio calculates the number of background checks based on Uber's spending.

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