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On the recordJune 18, 2013
I just hate to see us in the so-called interest of paying down our deficit and our debt actually hurting ourselves and hurting people at the same time.
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Al Franken
Democratic · Minnesota

Editor's note · Context

Franken expresses concern about budget cuts harming people while trying to reduce the deficit.

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