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On the recordMarch 29, 2011
If you cut too fast too deeply, you will slow down a very fragile recovery and threaten to put people out of work.
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Jim Clyburn
Democratic · South Carolina

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Clyburn warns against deep cuts that could harm economic recovery.

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