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Orrin Hatch: “What we received was not a practical vision for the future but an ideological document designed more to satisfy…”

On the recordFebruary 9, 2016
What we received was not a practical vision for the future but an ideological document designed more to satisfy political constituencies than to advance, at least in my opinion, serious policy proposals.
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Orrin Hatch
Republican · Utah

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Criticism of President Obama's budget proposal as ideological rather than practical.

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