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Cynthia Lummis: “A Federal financial carrot was dangled in front of some of the folks that took a bite out of it, right?”

On the recordJuly 16, 2013
A Federal financial carrot was dangled in front of some of the folks that took a bite out of it, right?
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Cynthia Lummis
Republican · Wyoming

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Lummis questions the influence of federal funding on local government decisions.

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