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On the recordJanuary 7, 2009
What are the implications for small businesses? Because it seems to me absent the kind of cost containment reforms I would like to see, you set up a new entitlement program, small businesses get more taxes?
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Ron Wyden
Democratic · Oregon

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Wyden questions the impact of new entitlement programs on small businesses without cost containment.

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