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On the recordMarch 27, 2012
This budget is wholly insufficient, and it's not your fault, Madam Chair. It's our fault as the general Appropriations Committee, and we have to say to the President, and to our leadership, we cannot take it, the country cannot.
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Mary Landrieu
Democratic · Louisiana

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Landrieu holds the Appropriations Committee accountable for the budget crisis.

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