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Brian Schatz: “If most of the savings occur outside of the scoring window, it becomes a policy and an appropriations question.”

On the recordMarch 9, 2015
If most of the savings occur outside of the scoring window, it becomes a policy and an appropriations question.
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Brian Schatz
Democratic · Hawaii

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Senator Schatz discusses implications of savings outside the budget scoring window.

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