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John Rice Carter: “I thank the gentleman for yielding. I hear what you're saying about these good programs that are being cut and reduced.…”

On the recordJuly 6, 2011
I thank the gentleman for yielding. I hear what you're saying about these good programs that are being cut and reduced. And if this actually put money in the pockets of those programs, it would be one thing. But the facts are that the cuts that we do here do not change any amount of spending that the DOD does. These people continue to have military jobs, and they continue to get a paycheck.
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John Rice Carter
Republican · Georgia
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Jul 6, 2011

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