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On the recordMarch 12, 2013
So it is really not the President's sequester, it is the responsibility that the--or the mandate that the congress has placed upon the executive branch to implement these cuts, these painful cuts, the cuts that may very well cause some real problems for the consuming public.
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Sanford Bishop
Democratic · Georgia

Editor's note · Context

Bishop clarifies that the sequester is a congressional mandate, not solely the President's decision.

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