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Chris Van Hollen: The cuts would be both too deep and too arbitrary.

On the recordApril 24, 2012
The cuts would be both too deep and too arbitrary.
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Chris Van Hollen
Democratic · Maryland

Editor's note · Context

Van Hollen argues against the indiscriminate cuts proposed by the sequester.

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