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On the recordApril 10, 2013
Now, on one side, we hear this all the time, that we have a group of people that would like to shrink up government so small they could drown it in a bathtub.
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John Larson
Democratic · Connecticut

Editor's note · Context

Larson criticizes efforts to reduce government size at the expense of social programs.

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