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On the recordMarch 18, 2013
the law that we created, we created this now, says that Federal agencies must make across-the-board cuts to everything, and Congress writes the laws.
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Elijah Cummings
Democratic · Maryland

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Cummings clarifies that Congress mandated the cuts through legislation.

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