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On the recordJune 8, 2011
I want to focus a lot of my questions on this, because we are at a time now when we are looking at our long-term sustainability of our budget, of our deficit, long-term sustainability.
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Al Franken
Democratic · Minnesota

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Franken emphasizes the importance of budget sustainability in early education funding.

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