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Mike Johnson: “Sequestration assumes that the Nation's debt is out of control, and so, therefore, we must cut spending.”

On the recordMarch 16, 2015
Sequestration assumes that the Nation's debt is out of control, and so, therefore, we must cut spending.
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Mike Johnson
Republican · Louisiana

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Johnson discusses the rationale behind sequestration and its implications for spending.

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