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Tom Harkin: If we exempt defense alone, the entire burden for finding the $1.2 trillion in cuts would fall on, basically, this…

On the recordJuly 24, 2012
If we exempt defense alone, the entire burden for finding the $1.2 trillion in cuts would fall on, basically, this subcommittee.
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Tom Harkin
Democratic · Iowa

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Harkin warns that exempting defense from cuts unfairly shifts the burden to education.

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