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Obama Targets Government Contracting, Private Hill Meetings

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Tuesday, September 23rd, 2008

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By Emelie Rutherford Democratic presidential nominee Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) outlined a government reform plan yesterday that calls for slashing government spending on contractors and requiring that congressional bill-writing sessions be held in public. Obama pledged to "save billions of dollars by cutting private contractors and improving management of the hundreds of billions of dollars our government spends on private contracts," and to "end the abuse of no-bid contracts for good," during a speech in Green Bay, Wis., according to…

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