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Byron Dorgan: “A flat budget is a declining budget for your agencies, and that's just a fact because you have additional salary and…”

On the recordMarch 10, 2010
A flat budget is a declining budget for your agencies, and that's just a fact because you have additional salary and other expenses from inflation.
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Byron Dorgan
Democratic · North Dakota

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Dorgan explains that a flat budget does not account for rising costs, leading to less work.

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