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Rick Scott: “It's past time for Congress to raise the sequester-level discretionary spending caps that are stunting the progress that…”

On the recordJuly 27, 2015
It's past time for Congress to raise the sequester-level discretionary spending caps that are stunting the progress that we can make as a Nation.
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Rick Scott
Republican · Florida

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Scott emphasizes the need to raise spending caps for national progress.

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