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Patrick Leahy: “We are getting a lot of no-bid contracts with basically the company, as we found in these e-mails, saying: Here is what…”

On the recordJune 16, 2004
We are getting a lot of no-bid contracts with basically the company, as we found in these e-mails, saying: Here is what it is going to be. There are no bids. There is nothing else. The Government says: OK, go forward. But there is no question there has been war profiteering there. There has been no fraud, no artifice, nothing else. He just sent the bill, and the bill gets paid. It is profiteering, but I do not see where your statute covers that situation.
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Patrick Leahy
Democratic · Vermont
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Discussing concerns over no-bid contracts and war profiteering.

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