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On the recordFebruary 14, 2011
What I am hearing are terms like sustainable deficits, that doesn't seem to be working towards getting it under control.
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James Lankford
Republican · Oklahoma

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Lankford criticizes the concept of sustainable deficits as ineffective.

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