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Roger Wicker: “Sequestration was designed to be stupid. It was explicitly designed to be so unacceptable that Congress would find a…”

On the recordMarch 10, 2015
Sequestration was designed to be stupid. It was explicitly designed to be so unacceptable that Congress would find a solution
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Roger Wicker
Republican · Mississippi

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Wicker discusses the flawed design of sequestration intended to prompt Congressional action.

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