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Pat Ryan: “If you just did nothing, if you just didn't pass this budget, the deficit would drop faster than passing this budget.”

On the recordMarch 2, 2009
If you just did nothing, if you just didn't pass this budget, the deficit would drop faster than passing this budget.
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Pat Ryan
Democratic · New York

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Ryan argues that not passing the budget would reduce the deficit more effectively.

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