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On the recordSeptember 12, 2011
if we were do it, let's do a $1.5 trillion deficit reduction and let's do it on the backs of those same people.
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Jim Clyburn
Democratic · South Carolina

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Clyburn questions the fairness of deficit reduction impacting the disadvantaged.

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