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On the recordMarch 28, 2017
It has been one of the areas that I try to push a lot of people that I talk to, to say it is the creeping element in the budget that no one can pay attention to because you assume it is never going to get that high, but it is coming.
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James Lankford
Republican · Oklahoma

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Lankford emphasizes the growing concern of interest payments in the budget.

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