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Jerry Nadler: “We shouldn't put ideological choices into the Constitution.”

On the recordOctober 3, 2011
We shouldn't put ideological choices into the Constitution.
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Jerry Nadler
Democratic · New York

Editor's note · Context

Nadler argues against embedding ideological choices in the Constitution regarding balanced budgets.

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