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DHS grant spending questioned amid budget woes

The Homeland Security Department paid for an underwater robot in a Midwest city with no major rivers or lakes nearby, a hog catcher in rural Texas and a fish tank in a small Texas town, according to a new congressional report highlighting what it described as wasteful spending of tax money intended for counterterrorism purposes.

http://news.yahoo.com/dhs-grant-spending-questioned-amid-budget-woes-203207130--politics.html

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