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Chris Coons: I'm someone who served as a county executive and lived under the strictures of a balanced budget amendment, and thus on…

On the recordNovember 29, 2011
I'm someone who served as a county executive and lived under the strictures of a balanced budget amendment, and thus on some level am intuitively drawn to them as a potential budgetary solution.
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Chris Coons
Democratic · Delaware

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Coons reflects on his experience with balanced budget amendments as a potential solution.

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