Senator James Cowan, the Liberal leader in the Senate, is confirming that he is among the senators named in auditor general Michael Ferguson's forthcoming audit of expenses. Cowan says he disagrees with Ferguson over travel expenses from four years ago. (Spending by another nine senators has been deemed egregious enough to warrant investigation by the RCMP.)

Date: 2015-06-05
Placeline: OTTAWA.
Source: The Canadian Press
Length: 23 seconds

Transcript Prediction: << I have a disagreement with the respectful disagreement with the auditor-general over some travel expenses that I incurred in 2011 they total a little over $10,000 of those claims related to fix a tight under truck as part of my duties as a senator that deal with issues that I've spoken spoken publicly about him and have introduced bills in the Senate to deal with >>

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