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Hal Rogers: “We have got to go line by line and take an axe to programs that we simply can't afford.”

On the recordDecember 7, 2010
We have got to go line by line and take an axe to programs that we simply can't afford.
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Hal Rogers
Republican · Kentucky

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Hal Rogers advocates for a detailed review and reduction of government spending.

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