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On the recordJanuary 23, 2012
How does the Department conduct budgetary oversight of highly classified programs and what will you do to ensure that they do not become black holes on the balance sheets?
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Jim Langevin
Democratic · Rhode Island

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Langevin questions the oversight of classified programs' budgets.

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