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On the recordDecember 11, 2018
They had no contingency plans for sequestration because it was so utterly irresponsible and unthinkable that it could not happen.
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Roger Wicker
Republican · Mississippi

Editor's note · Context

Wicker recalls a previous Secretary of the Navy's disbelief regarding sequestration's possibility.

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