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On the recordApril 2, 2014
So we will have gone from spending hundreds of millions of dollars at the Kajaki Dam that failed to hundreds of millions of dollars in this bridging project that looks like it is going to fail to yet another new way to spend more money without any confidence that it will work.
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Peter Welch
Democratic · Vermont

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Welch expresses skepticism about ongoing funding for failed projects in Afghanistan.

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