On the recordApril 9, 2013
I hope you will understand that spending in the Tax Code is very much spending
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congress.govJeff Merkley: “I hope you will understand that spending in the Tax Code is very much spending”
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Merkley stresses that tax code spending should be recognized as actual spending.
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