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Scott DesJarlais: “Sequestration needs to happen. Bottom line, it needs to happen, and that is the deal we struck to raise the debt limit.”

On the recordFebruary 13, 2013
Sequestration needs to happen. Bottom line, it needs to happen, and that is the deal we struck to raise the debt limit.
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Scott DesJarlais
Republican · Tennessee

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DesJarlais insists on the necessity of sequestration as part of the debt limit agreement.

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