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Steve Womack: If our goal is to convince the American public that we are going to achieve some kind of fiscal sanity...only on the…

On the recordMarch 16, 2015
If our goal is to convince the American public that we are going to achieve some kind of fiscal sanity...only on the discretionary side of the budget, the public is going to be terribly misled.
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Steve Womack
Republican · Arkansas

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Womack warns that focusing only on discretionary spending won't achieve fiscal sanity.

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