On the recordMarch 1, 2004
But how can you justify spending tens of billions of dollars on these computerized accounting systems when you do not even know how to fix what is wrong with those systems that we are pouring money into?
Robert C. Byrd: “But how can you justify spending tens of billions of dollars on these computerized accounting systems when you do not…”
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Senator Byrd challenges the justification for spending on faulty accounting systems.
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