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On the recordMarch 30, 2011
So in the first test of their legislative cut-go protocol, they will be voting to violate it. They will be voting to do so with $300 million added to the deficit at a time when they are cutting $11.6 billion with a ``b'' from education throughout the United States of America. We are American citizens.
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Eleanor Holmes Norton
Democratic · District of Columbia

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