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Conor Lamb: “I think it is a little hard for veterans in particular to understand how we are going to spend $5 billion over 10 years…”

On the recordJuly 24, 2019
I think it is a little hard for veterans in particular to understand how we are going to spend $5 billion over 10 years on a legacy system that we are trying to replace when the cost of the new system is $10 billion.
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Conor Lamb
Pennsylvania

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Lamb questions the spending on maintaining an old system versus a new one.

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