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Chris Van Hollen: the proposal that our Republican colleagues in the House have made is that we would, relative to today's sequester, we…

On the recordJuly 30, 2013
the proposal that our Republican colleagues in the House have made is that we would, relative to today's sequester, we would increase our spending on defense, and we would make up for that increase by dramatically cutting programs in non-defense.
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Chris Van Hollen
Democratic · Maryland

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He discusses the Republican plan to cut non-defense programs to increase defense spending.

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