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Jack Reed: “Sequestration is the law, but Congress makes the laws.”

On the recordMarch 2, 2015
Sequestration is the law, but Congress makes the laws.
Said by
Jack Reed
Democratic · Rhode Island

Editor's note · Context

Reed asserts Congress's power to end sequestration's negative impacts.

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