Tom Carper: “If the President had run with this when you guys said, 'This is what…”

On the recordApril 26, 2016

If the President had run with this when you guys said, 'This is what we recommend,' we would not be having this hearing today.

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Democratic · Delaware

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Suggests that early presidential support for Bowles-Simpson could have avoided current issues.

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