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Roy Blunt: The reliance on mandatory spending to supplant discretionary funding contributes to exactly what is wrong with our…

On the recordApril 6, 2016
The reliance on mandatory spending to supplant discretionary funding contributes to exactly what is wrong with our Federal budget.
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Roy Blunt
Republican · Missouri

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Roy Blunt critiques the use of mandatory spending in the federal budget.

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