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      <excerpt>...won the contract only to have that win reviewed on a protest and overturned by the General Accounting Office.  U.S. Sen. Roger Wicker, also a guest speaker at the dinner, called that process &#8220;politicized beyond what I&#8217;ve seen in my 15 years in Congr</excerpt>
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