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Patrick Leahy: “That is not a scheme. He said: I just delivered this widget. Here is your bill for $2,000. And there are so many other…”

On the recordJune 16, 2004
That is not a scheme. He said: I just delivered this widget. Here is your bill for $2,000. And there are so many other things going on, the Government says: Here is your 2,000 bucks. It is not a scheme. It is not an artifice. He is not hiding the fact at all. He said: Here is your bill for $2,000 and somewhere gets paid in the bureaucracy. He has obviously gouged. He has not lied about it. He is up front about it. Does the Senator's statute cover that because that happens a lot?
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Patrick Leahy
Democratic · Vermont

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Discussing issues related to government billing practices.

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