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Ken Calvert: “Budgets can be values-based documents without being ideological manifestos, and I would hope that the burden of…”

On the recordMarch 1, 2017
Budgets can be values-based documents without being ideological manifestos, and I would hope that the burden of governing fosters a sense of pragmatism about the value of government investment.
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Ken Calvert
Republican · California

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Calvert emphasizes the importance of pragmatic budgeting in governance.

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