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Brian Schatz: “We do not have enough money. If we could do more, we would do more.”

On the recordJune 5, 2017
We do not have enough money. If we could do more, we would do more.
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Brian Schatz
Democratic · Hawaii

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Senator Schatz questions the budget's implication of fiscal constraints.

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