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Lamar Smith: “We need a constitutional mandate to limit both the President and Congress to annual budgets that spend no more than the…”

On the recordOctober 3, 2011
We need a constitutional mandate to limit both the President and Congress to annual budgets that spend no more than the Government takes in.
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Lamar Smith
Republican · Texas

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Advocating for a balanced budget amendment to control spending.

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