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On the recordApril 10, 2013
Would it not be fair to say by the same logic because of the sequester, because of the Budget Control Act, the roughly $2 trillion worth of cuts that we have enacted over the last three years, that the Republicans got their cuts, and yet they still ask for more cuts in the Republican budget?
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John Yarmuth
Democratic · Kentucky

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Yarmuth argues that Republicans have already received cuts yet continue to demand more.

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