Sen. Claire McCaskill has joined her Democratic freshmen colleagues to introduce a bill that would establish an independent bipartisan commission to investigate U.S. wartime contracting in Iraq and Afghanistan.“During World War II, President Franklin Roosevelt said, ‘I don't want to see a single war millionaire created in the United States as a result of this world disaster’. And so Missouri’s own Senator Harry Truman created a committee that investigated and uncovered millions of dollars in wasteful, wartime spending,” Senator McCaskill said.
“We know that the cost plus contracts used in Iraq and Afghanistan are nearly blank checks to private defense contractors, primed for waste, fraud and abuse. We need a new investigatory body, inspired by the Truman Committee, to protect our tax dollars and bring better accountability to the way we do business while at war,” added McCaskill.
“We know that the cost plus contracts used in Iraq and Afghanistan are nearly blank checks to private defense contractors, primed for waste, fraud and abuse. We need a new investigatory body, inspired by the Truman Committee, to protect our tax dollars and bring better accountability to the way we do business while at war,” added McCaskill.
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Congratulations on getting one of the only known photos in history of Jim Webb smiling...intense fellow he is.
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