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Hal Rogers: And yet, to combat this urgent public health crisis, in your budget you proposed cutting the Coast Guard…

On the recordMarch 10, 2014
And yet, to combat this urgent public health crisis, in your budget you proposed cutting the Coast Guard drastically--the one agency that can protect our shorelines against this invasion of a health crisis that we are undergoing.
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Hal Rogers
Republican · Kentucky

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Rogers criticizes budget cuts to the Coast Guard amid a heroin crisis.

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