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Patrick Leahy: “We've appropriated $18 billion and we're told we had to do it immediately, needed it yesterday.”

On the recordApril 21, 2004
We've appropriated $18 billion and we're told we had to do it immediately, needed it yesterday.
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Patrick Leahy
Democratic · Vermont
Source
congress.gov
Apr 21, 2004

Editor's note · Context

Leahy expresses frustration over the urgency and slow obligation of funds for Iraq.

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