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On the recordJanuary 27, 2010
I don't want to get into what we've been getting into, but simply to observe that as the gentleman knows when he uses the 60 some odd percent, much of that, a significant part of that spending, was specifically not included in the baseline, so that it will not be incorporated in the freeze.
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Steny Hoyer
Democratic · Maryland
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Jan 27, 2010

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Hoyer discusses budget spending and its relation to baseline calculations.

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