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On the recordFebruary 26, 2013
I just want to point out the irony, Administrator, that if you did have a line item of waste, fraud, and abuse of $627 million, under the sequester rules you could only cut that 8 to 10 percent.
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Rick Larsen
Democratic · Washington

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Larsen highlights the limitations of sequester rules on cutting waste.

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