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On the recordJune 16, 2015
And I guess one of the challenges on the dynamic scoring is that, you know, you can reduce an expenditure that will have, you know, minimal kind of extra economic consequence or you can reduce an expenditure like an infrastructure expenditure that could have significant economic consequence.
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Tim Kaine
Democratic · Virginia

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Discussing the impact of expenditure reductions on the economy.

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