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On the recordSeptember 25, 2013
Yeah, we could add a lot of tax dollars to it, or deficit dollars, and say we are just going to continue to fund it that way with deficit.
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James Lankford
Republican · Oklahoma

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Lankford discusses funding through tax or deficit dollars.

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