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On the recordFebruary 12, 2013
I think also our inability to do budgets and appropriations on the Senate side and some of the difficulties we have had, demanded of us to change the paradigm and change the structure in which we make these considerations.
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Johnny Isakson
Republican · Georgia

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Isakson discusses the need for structural changes in budget processes.

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