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On the recordFebruary 6, 2013
In terms just of the sheer organizational effort, I assume it's thousands of hours for your personnel to try to figure out how to contort your budget to comply with the sequester, that would much better be spent looking forward and working on a fiscal year 2014 budget.
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Tim Kaine
Democratic · Virginia

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Kaine highlights inefficiencies caused by budget constraints.

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