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Jeb Hensarling: “How can it be that year after year we can spend so much money to achieve so little and fail so many?”

On the recordJune 25, 2013
How can it be that year after year we can spend so much money to achieve so little and fail so many?
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Jeb Hensarling
Republican · Texas

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Hensarling questions the effectiveness of HUD's budget and spending.

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