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On the recordSeptember 21, 2011
The key to this, again, it is not that the budget process itself; it is compromise, it is fundamental fairness.
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Allyson Schwartz
Democratic · Pennsylvania

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Emphasizes the importance of compromise over the budget process itself.

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