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Gerry Connolly: “If you round it out at $125 billion a year, and that could be a low figure, actually, but we will take that one, times…”

On the recordJuly 9, 2013
If you round it out at $125 billion a year, and that could be a low figure, actually, but we will take that one, times ten, it exceeds sequestration.
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Gerry Connolly
Democratic · Virginia

Editor's note · Context

Connolly points out the scale of improper payments exceeding sequestration levels.

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