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Joe Courtney: “Lifting the caps in the bipartisan budget agreement obviously is going to hopefully take the handcuffs off.”

On the recordMarch 6, 2018
Lifting the caps in the bipartisan budget agreement obviously is going to hopefully take the handcuffs off.
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Joe Courtney
Democratic · Connecticut

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Courtney discusses the positive impact of lifting budget caps on national priorities.

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