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Doc Hastings: “It is clearly appropriate to ask, in these tight fiscal times, whether taxpayers should subsidize groups that sue…”

On the recordJune 18, 2012
It is clearly appropriate to ask, in these tight fiscal times, whether taxpayers should subsidize groups that sue taxpayers in return.
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Doc Hastings
Republican · Washington

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Hastings questions taxpayer funding for organizations that sue the government.

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