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Mazie Hirono: We do have bipartisan support for eliminating the sequestration, but we have not quite been able to achieve that.

On the recordMay 23, 2017
We do have bipartisan support for eliminating the sequestration, but we have not quite been able to achieve that.
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Mazie Hirono
Democratic · Hawaii

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Hirono discusses challenges in achieving bipartisan support to eliminate sequestration.

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