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On the recordMarch 13, 2013
And to be perfectly honest, everybody likes to do different things. I am not one who likes to throw around hundreds of millions of dollars or billions of dollars because it doesn't mean much to my constituents.
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Michael Capuano
Democratic · Massachusetts

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Capuano expresses concern about the impact of large funding amounts on constituents.

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