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Joe Manchin: “So you are basically thinking it might be more policy, deciding on what we think we need and what we don't need?”

On the recordJuly 26, 2011
So you are basically thinking it might be more policy, deciding on what we think we need and what we don't need?
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Joe Manchin
Democratic · West Virginia

Editor's note · Context

Manchin suggests that budget decisions may be more about policy than actual fraud.

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