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Rob Portman: “The mandatory side of the budget, which is the part we do not appropriate every year, is now two-thirds of the budget.”

On the recordMarch 4, 2014
The mandatory side of the budget, which is the part we do not appropriate every year, is now two-thirds of the budget.
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Rob Portman
Republican · Ohio

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Portman discusses the growing proportion of mandatory spending in the federal budget.

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