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Dick Durbin: I've said, many times, sequestration was a threat that was never supposed to happen. But it did.

On the recordJune 17, 2014
I've said, many times, sequestration was a threat that was never supposed to happen. But it did.
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Dick Durbin
Democratic · Illinois

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Durbin remarks on the unexpected reality of sequestration as a threat to defense.

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