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On the recordMay 4, 2015
That amount of money, which is a fraction, a minute fraction, $120-plus million out of a total of $71 billion, in my view, is sadly inadequate.
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Richard Blumenthal
Democratic · Connecticut

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Blumenthal critiques the budget allocation as insufficient.

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