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Dan Coats: Every year we sort of have a shrinking percentage of the overall budget, because of our runaway mandatory spending.

On the recordMarch 25, 2014
Every year we sort of have a shrinking percentage of the overall budget, because of our runaway mandatory spending.
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Dan Coats
Republican · Indiana

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Coats points out the budgetary constraints affecting military spending.

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