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Gerry Connolly: “I don't leave this hearing with any confidence that the program in front of us with $1 billion being planned in…”

On the recordNovember 29, 2011
I don't leave this hearing with any confidence that the program in front of us with $1 billion being planned in expenditures over the next several years has the slightest chance of being effective.
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Gerry Connolly
Democratic · Virginia

Editor's note · Context

Connolly expresses skepticism about the effectiveness of a $1 billion program for Iraq.

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