If you thought it was going to be a longer shutdown, then the deficiency act all the things that you cited would take place later on, not from the first day.
Rob Wittman: “If you thought it was going to be a longer shutdown, then the deficiency act all the things that you cited would take…”
On the recordOctober 15, 2013
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Wittman questions the rationale behind extreme measures taken during the government shutdown.
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