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Chris Van Hollen: “Arbitrarily, trying to squeeze all of that into the 10-year window, which apparently was what the Speaker had agreed to…”

On the recordFebruary 12, 2013
Arbitrarily, trying to squeeze all of that into the 10-year window, which apparently was what the Speaker had agreed to do as part of extending the 3-month debt ceiling, is not good economics.
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Chris Van Hollen
Democratic · Maryland

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Van Hollen criticizes the approach to budget changes within a limited timeframe.

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