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Tom Cotton: The Budget Control Act is not the Constitution, and the 112th Congress was not the Constitutional Convention. We should…

On the recordMarch 8, 2017
The Budget Control Act is not the Constitution, and the 112th Congress was not the Constitutional Convention. We should simply repeal it.
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Tom Cotton
Republican · Arkansas

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Tom Cotton argues for the repeal of the Budget Control Act, emphasizing its inadequacy.

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