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On the recordMarch 8, 2017
The chair and ranking on this committee have been so eloquent really since I got here to the Senate about the foolishness of the sequester.
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Tim Kaine
Democratic · Virginia

Editor's note · Context

Kaine acknowledges the committee's stance on the negative impacts of the sequester.

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