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Ken Calvert: Also with this year's budget the administration has shown a willful ignorance for existing spending caps by proposing to…

On the recordFebruary 10, 2015
Also with this year's budget the administration has shown a willful ignorance for existing spending caps by proposing to spend $74 billion more than what current law allows.
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Ken Calvert
Republican · California

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Calvert accuses the administration of ignoring spending caps in the budget proposal.

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