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On the recordApril 24, 2012
The balanced approach, I hear this quite a bit these days. The President already has a pretty steep tax increase in his budget.
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Pat Ryan
Democratic · New York

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Ryan critiques the President's budget for including tax increases instead of spending cuts.

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