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Michael S. Barr: “This seems to me a five-alarm fire.”

On the recordFebruary 9, 2016
This seems to me a five-alarm fire.
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Michael S. Barr

Editor's note · Context

Barr expresses alarm over the need for Congress to reform mandatory entitlement spending.

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