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Richard Shelby: “To get Federal spending under control in the long term, we must reduce spending in the short term.”

On the recordMarch 8, 2011
To get Federal spending under control in the long term, we must reduce spending in the short term.
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Richard Shelby
Republican · Alabama

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Shelby argues for immediate spending reductions to control federal expenditure.

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