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Michael Burgess: “They need the right people. You are not going to get good, competent people to work for the government if you underpay…”

On the recordJuly 19, 2011
They need the right people. You are not going to get good, competent people to work for the government if you underpay them.
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Michael Burgess
Republican · Texas

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Burgess stresses the importance of adequate funding to attract competent personnel to the FDA.

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