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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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