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Robert C. Byrd: “At Secretary Rumsfeld's confirmation hearing, I asked what he was going to do about the Pentagon's broken accounting…”

On the recordMarch 1, 2004
At Secretary Rumsfeld's confirmation hearing, I asked what he was going to do about the Pentagon's broken accounting systems.
Said by
Robert C. Byrd
West Virginia
Source
congress.gov
Mar 1, 2004

Editor's note · Context

Senator Byrd highlights ongoing issues with Pentagon accounting systems since Rumsfeld's confirmation.

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