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Mazie Hirono: The President's proposed budget for 2017 actually puts into our proposed base funding those funding levels that Congress…

On the recordApril 6, 2016
The President's proposed budget for 2017 actually puts into our proposed base funding those funding levels that Congress has put in as one-time increases over the past two years.
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Mazie Hirono
Democratic · Hawaii

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Hirono mentions budget proposals for volcano monitoring.

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