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Tom Cotton: “This approach, keeping sequestration in effect for fiscal year 2016, plusing up OCO spending, not good, better than…”

On the recordMarch 18, 2015
This approach, keeping sequestration in effect for fiscal year 2016, plusing up OCO spending, not good, better than nothing.
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Tom Cotton
Republican · Arkansas

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Senator Cotton critiques the fiscal strategy for defense spending.

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