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On the recordJuly 11, 2010
we are well over half a trillion dollars a year going down this pipe, so it is worth making sure we can track it to the end.
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Sheldon Whitehouse
Democratic · Rhode Island

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Emphasizing the importance of tracking government spending on contracts.

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