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Jack Reed: “I could say, Mr. President, we will try to determine this, but unexpended does not mean that it is not committed. Some…”

On the recordJuly 25, 2005
I could say, Mr. President, we will try to determine this, but unexpended does not mean that it is not committed. Some of these funds could in fact be committed to specific sites already so that money can't be spent again elsewhere. We will try to get a number on that. But the scale of the problem, the number of sites--it is in the order, just within Russia, of 200 sites.
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Jack Reed
Democratic · Rhode Island

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