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On the recordSeptember 17, 2013
By the time you get to 2017, if you assume things stay as they are now, that means there will not have been a single program that you can identify that needs to be downsized.
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Dan Coats
Republican · Indiana

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Coats warns of inaction leading to slower growth and unemployment by 2017.

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