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Joe Manchin: If we could evaluate what the needs were and with a real-time budget request, then if you over-performed to where you…

On the recordFebruary 26, 2014
If we could evaluate what the needs were and with a real-time budget request, then if you over-performed to where you did it less than what we thought it would take, you kept 50 percent of the savings within that department.
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Joe Manchin
Democratic · West Virginia

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Senator Manchin proposes a budget incentive plan for departments to save money.

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