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Harry Reid: “We have agreed to an historic amount of cuts for the remainder of this fiscal year, as well as a short-term bridge that…”

On the recordApril 7, 2011
We have agreed to an historic amount of cuts for the remainder of this fiscal year, as well as a short-term bridge that will give us time to avoid a shutdown while we get that agreement through both houses and to the President.
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Harry Reid
Democratic · Nevada

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Harry Reid discusses the agreement reached on budget cuts to avoid a government shutdown.

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