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Jon Tester: “Were there things in the Recovery Act that we should apply to other pieces of legislation?”

On the recordDecember 5, 2011
Were there things in the Recovery Act that we should apply to other pieces of legislation?
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Jon Tester
Democratic · Montana

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Tester questions the applicability of Recovery Act provisions to future legislation.

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