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Sheldon Whitehouse: “I intend to do. The $15 billion that comes back to seniors through the benefit against the $230 billion overall cut to…”

On the recordFebruary 11, 2013
I intend to do. The $15 billion that comes back to seniors through the benefit against the $230 billion overall cut to me is a fig leaf.
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Sheldon Whitehouse
Democratic · Rhode Island

Editor's note · Context

Whitehouse expresses his opposition to cuts affecting seniors, calling the benefits insufficient.

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