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On the recordAugust 4, 2011
Why would you want to impose restraint on an economic recovery that is already fragile? You are removing spending power from the economy at a time when it needs it.
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Elijah Cummings
Democratic · Maryland

Editor's note · Context

Cummings questions the logic of imposing economic restraint during a fragile recovery.

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