How terrible it was; how could we continue to have covered, how would we continue to fund the HUD agencies when they are going mismanagement like that? Does the gentleman not a see a little bit of a discrepancy in judgment, in opinion, in terms of the gross mismanagement of billions of dollars through the National Reconnaissance Office and what we heard about HUD and the running of public housing?
Bernie Sanders: “How terrible it was; how could we continue to have covered, how would we continue to fund the HUD agencies when they are…”
On the recordMay 22, 1996
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Addressing concerns about mismanagement in HUD agencies and the National Reconnaissance Office.
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