Joe Courtney actually said...

the historical precedent of sequestration in the 1990s and early 2000s, when Congress came together on a bipartisan basis with a balanced package of deficit reduction, turned off those chainsaws that were put into place with Gramm-Rudman.

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Courtney references past bipartisan efforts to mitigate the effects of sequestration.

03/11/2014

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