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Susan Collins: “The President's budget laid out a path that would achieve primary balance by 2017.”

On the recordMarch 7, 2011
The President's budget laid out a path that would achieve primary balance by 2017.
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Susan Collins
Republican · Maine

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Senator Collins questions the feasibility of achieving primary balance by 2017.

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